Huey Lewis & the News
Huey Lewis & the News are a popular rock band from the 1980s. Their song "The Power of Love" was a #1 US hit and featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, with which they also recorded the theme song "Back In Time". The band's lead singer is Huey Lewis, who has a cameo appearance in the film as the teacher who rejects Marty McFly's band's audition for the school's 'Battle of the Bands' contest - ironically, the piece the band plays is an instrumental version of "The Power of Love". "The Power of Love" was nominated for an Academy Award. Their former bass player, Mario Cipollina, is the younger brother of John Cipollina. Some of their hit songs are:"I Want a New Drug""The Heart of Rock 'n Roll""The Power of Love""If This Is It""Hip To Be Square""Heart and Soul""Stuck with You"
DiscographyHuey Lewis & the News (1980)Picture This (1982)Sports (1983)Fore (1986)Small World (1988)Hard at Play (1991)Four Chords & Several Years Ago (1994)Time Flies... The Best of (1996)Plan B (2001)
External links A Huey Lewis and the News fanpage
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