Hugh Anthony Cregg III was born in New York on July 5, 1950.
In the early 1970s, Huey Lewis played the harmonica and sang with the band Clover. They recorded several albums in the San Francisco Bay Area. Huey also plays with the band Thin Lizzy.
In 1979, he received musicians Mark Zipollina, who, by the way, to his brother, John, played with Quicksiler Messenger Service, Bill Gibson and Johnny Coll and formed the band Huey Lewis & American Express. After complaints from a credit company of the same name, the group changed its name to Huey Lewis & News in 1980. It was here that they greeted the musician Chris Heys.
Their first stand-alone album in 1980 went unnoticed. But did their second album, Picture This, give them their first hit single, “Do You Believe In Love”?
On the charts, Huey Lewis and “News” played 12 top ten singles, three of which became number one. Here are the ten biggest singles from Huey Lewis & the News, according to the Billboard weekly charts:
1. Stuck On You - 1986 - The group's biggest single was the first song released from “Fore!”. album, and he spent three weeks at number one.
2. The power of love - 1985 year. Their first single, number one, is from the film “Back to the Future”, and the song was nominated for an Oscar. Huey appears in a cameo in the film. Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmet Brown in the film) appears in a music video.
3. The Jacob Staircase - 1987 Only one band single was written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John. Hornsby later recorded his version of this song on his 1988 album Scenes From the Southside.
4. Hip to Be Square - 1986 - The singing vocals on this song are San Francisco forty-nine quarterback, Joe Montana and Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott. The song was featured in the film "American Psychologist". An educational version of the song was used on Sesame Street, entitled "Hip to be a square."
5. Perfect World - 1988 - The last ten singles of the group was written by a former member of Clover Alex Call. In a music video, there is a band playing in a garbage dump.
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll - 1984 - This single came out of the Sport album, in which four top ten singles appeared.
7. I want a new drug. 1984 Also from the “Sport” album, Huey eventually sued Ray Parker Jr. when the similarities between this song and Parker’s 1984 film Ghostbusters were heard. They settled out of court.
8. If so - 1984 - again, from the “Sport” album, the music video for this song was shot on the boardwalk beach of Santa Cruz.
9. Doing It All For My Baby - 1987 Going to the sixth number on the weekly charts, this song is from the “Fore!” Album, Huey as a symbol of Dr. Frankenstein in the video.
10. Do you believe in love? - 1982 - Originally titled "We both believe in love," it was the single single for the band and bought them for the first time in the top ten.
Huey Lewis and News had two other top ten singles: "Heart and Soul" (1983) and "I know what I like" (1987).
“The Heart of Rock & Roll” won them only a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, and “The Power of Love” was nominated for a Grammy for the year. The group also received a Grammy Award for their participation in the song “We Are The World” for African Africa in 1986.
Huey appeared and caught up with Gwyneth Paltrow in the 2000 film Duets.
At the time of this writing (2013), Huey Lewis and the news capture the audience with music, recording a new album with all the new materials and touring in honor of the 30th anniversary of his album Sport.
