Huey Lewis and The News - Heart and Soul 💓

[appalachiablue]

- Official video. - Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, & actor.

Lewis sings lead & plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis & the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs.

The band is perhaps best known for their 3rd, & best-selling, album Sports, & their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972- 1979. Lewis was born in New York City. His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg Jr., was an Irish-American from Boston, & his mother, Maria Magdalena Barcinska, was Polish, from Warsaw. His grandfather, Hugh Cregg, was district attorney of Essex County, Mass. from 1931 to 1959.

Lewis was raised in Marin County, Calif, living in Tamalpais Valley & Strawberry, & attending Strawberry Point Elem. School (where he skipped 2nd grade) & Edna Maguire Junior HS in Mill Valley. When he was 13, his parents divorced.
He attended & graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a then-all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967 & he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT.

He was also an all-state baseball player. Lewis attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. His mother had an extramarital affair with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch, who became his stepfather. Lewis credits Welch with inspiring him in his early teenage years. His mother was close friends with the Grateful Dead's manager and extended family. In an interview with David Letterman, Lewis talked about hitchhiking across the country back to NYC & how he learned to play the harmonica while waiting for rides..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Lewis

[bahboo]

1. On my last day in Hollywood, before moving up the coast...

I ran into Huey and the band at the Frolic Room, a legendary dive bar. They were taking a break from recording at Capitol Records which was just around the block. The bass player was drunk of course... Huey was cool...most folks left him alone, this is H-wood after all. Always liked the band...good, middle of the road rock...

[appalachiablue]

2. Thanks for sharing, what a cool story. I always liked his sound &

the rocking band. Saw them in concert once. He's had serious problems with his health and I wonder how things are going.