Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis & the News is an American rock band around the singer Huey Lewis, who in 1982 was particularly successful until 1991.
Band History
The band originated in 1979 from the merger of members of the groups Clover, where Huey Lewis had been members since 1971 and Sean Hopper (keyboards) since 1972, and soundhole, the Johnny Colla (saxophone / guitar), Bill Gibson (percussion ) and Mario Cipollina ( bass) came. The group won 1980 Chris Hayes ( guitar) and formed as to Huey Lewis and the American Express. The group was a business represented by Bob Brown, who is her manager even today, and got a recording contract with Chrysalis Records. However, the label insisted on a name change. At the suggestion of Bob Brown, the group renamed itself then into Huey Lewis and the News.
Mid- 1980, she published Huey Lewis and the News and the beginning of 1982 Picture This. Picture This included, among other things, the title Tattoo ( Giving It All Up for Love ), the Phil Lynott had written and published in 1980 on his solo album Solo in Soho. In 1983 sport with the hits The Heart of Rock & Roll, I Want a New Drug and the cover version of Hank Williams Honky Tonk Blues piece. With this album they harvested the first time outside the U.S., where the plate several times, was last awarded on 20 July 1987 platinum recognition. Sports is the most successful album of the band to this day. Already at that time belonged to the Curtis Mayfield title It 's All Right to the live program, with which the band presented their a cappella skills to the test.
In the summer of 1985, Huey Lewis & the News provided by The Power of Love ( number-one hit in the U.S. and 1986 for an Oscar, Golden Globe and a Grammy nomination ), and Back in Time two hits for the movie Back to the Future in which Huey Lewis also has a small cameo. For The Power of Love, a music video was produced in which Christopher Lloyd ( Doc Brown in the film performers ) and the De Lorean make an appearance.
In the late summer of 1986 appeared Fore! (named after a golf term ), on which the hits were The Power of Love, Stuck With You and Jacob 's Ladder (written by Bruce Hornsby ). The title NaturallySpeaking showed here for the first time on a studio album, the a cappella skills the group released the album Small World in the summer of 1988. In the spring of 1991, Hard at Play came out.
In spring 1994, the group's album Four Chords and Several Years Ago published, a tribute to the classics of rock ' n ' roll. All tracks have been recorded with the original recording technique ( amplifiers, microphones, tape recorders ) of the 1950s in the studio " The Site " in San Rafael ( California), the band played all the tracks together a live.
In 1999, Chrysalis, a digitally remastered version of the album sport out. The album also contained five previously unreleased versions of famous songs on the album, namely two "session " Takes ( The Heart of Rock & Roll Walkin 'on a Thin Line ) as well as live versions of If This Is It and Heart and Soul, both on February 21, 1985 in San Francisco, and I Want a New Drug, recorded on January 15, 1984 in Los Angeles.
In 2000, the group met after a long time again in Germany, including on June 20 in the BeatBox at the World Exhibition " Expo " in Hannover. The concert opened with We're not Here for a Long Time ( We're Here for a Good Time ); this title was released a year later on Plan B for the first time. After 2000, the band had no gigs so far in Germany more.
The group has umformiert meantime: So there is the "News Brothers" ( Marvin McFadden, Ron Stallings, and Rob Sudduth ) own brass section - on many previous songs were there as Tower of Power horn section. Mario Cipollina made in 1994 the well-known studio musician John Pierce on bass place. 2000 left the longtime composer and guitarist Chris Hayes, the band for family reasons; Stef Burns is since for him. Chris Hayes but was still working on the 2001 album with Plan B and jumps during live performances occasionally for Stef Burns when this is prevented.
On 13 April 2009, the saxophonist Ron Stallings died.
In October 2010, the album Soulsville was released in Europe, which had taken the group into the Ardent Studios in Nashville ( Tennessee). Huey Lewis and the News unpaid, much like they had done in 1994 at Four Chords & Several Years Ago, their musical heroes tribute. However, the group did not focus this time on the Rock ' n' Roll, but on soul classics. All recordings took place live in band Instrumentation and were analog, so on tape recorded. The album reached the Billboard 200 only accommodate 121, but managed to slide number 15 on the Billboard " Adult Contemporary " at number 18 and on the Billboard "R & B / Hip-Hop " charts.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums and compilations
Singles
Other Awards
- Grammy Awards 1986 in the category " Best Music Video, Long Form " for Huey Lewis & the News: The Heart of Rock & Roll ( 1985)
- The Power of Love ( Single): Gold
- I Want a New Drug ( Single): Gold