Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis is a american singing and songwriter for the band Huey Lewis and the News and formally, Clover he and his band are most fouse for their third album Sports in 1983 and there songs for Back To The Future in 1985 with The Power Of Love and Back in time.

## Pre Music Career

Hugh Anthony Cregg III (professionally known as Huey Lewis) was born July 5th 1950 in new york city (he is now 72), he was raised Marin County, California . when he was 13 his parent divorced, he then attended and graduated from Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. at his time at the school he became a all-state baseball player. Lewis attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his mom started dating with poet Lew Welch who became his stepfather, Lewis credits Welch for being a inspiration to him. in a interview with David Letterman, he talked about hitchhiking across the country and learned how to play the harmonica. he also traveled to Europe around this time, While visiting Madrid, Spain, he became an accomplished blues player as he hitchhiked and supported himself by busking with his harmonica. He gave his first concerts in Madrid, earning enough money to buy a plane ticket back to the US. when he came back to the united states he joined a band called Slippery Elm but in september 1969 he moved to San Francisco. his plan was the keep on making music and also had jobs as landscaping, carpentry, wedding and event planning, and selling food.

## Clover, Thin Lizzy's, and the American Express

In 1971 Huey Joined the band Clover and took the stage name Hughie Louis, Lewis played harmonica and sang lead vocals on the songs. in 1976 the band moved to LA and later traveled Britain. the first two Clover albums were not successful and Huey changed his stage name again to Huey Lewis. The band accompanied Elvis Costello on his debut album, *My Aim is True*, minus Lewis and Alex Call, the singers. in 78' the band returned to California and shortly after disbanded and later finalized Huey Lewis as his name, and with friends he met at clubs he preformed as all grouped together to form Huey Lewis and the american express and Exodisco the single was a disco cover of the theme song from Exodus.

## Sports, Power of love, and Fore!

the band added Chris Hayes to play the guitar. they signed on to Chrysalis Records which recommended them to change there name in fear the credit card company of the same name would sue. they settled on Huey Lewis and the news, After a failed self titled debut album in 1980, the band finally broke through to Top 40 success with the gold album Picture This in 1982, it rose to number 13 on the album charts and was the band's first big hit. the bands 3rd record Sports became number 1 in 1984 with 4 hit singles, The Heart of rock and roll, Heart and soul, I want a new drug, and walking on a thin line. in 1985 the band made two songs for the motion picture Back To The Future being Power Of Loveand Back in time both being very popular and having a cameo in the film. power of love was nominated for best original song at the academy awards. following the success of Sports, Huey Lewis and the News put out Fore! in 1986 with even more hits.

to see more about the albums, click this link --> Huey Lewis and the News

## What is Huey doing now?

Huey now lives on a ranch near Stevensville, Montana for a permanent residence for now.

## Filmography

click here for his filmography --> Huey Lewis Filmorgraphy