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Original 9 Track Chrysalis CD RELEASE!!!
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CD and all artwork included.
CD in Excellent Like New condition.
Jewel Case has normal wear.
Huey Lewis and the News' 1983 release has been the band's biggest
commercial success to date with four top 10 hits (The Heart of Rockn'
Roll, Heart and Soul, I Want A New Drug, If This Is It) and one top 20
hit (Walking On The Thin Line). Indeed this album on the whole is
all-pop album with a bit of heavier edge.
Track
listing
1. Heart of Rock & Roll, The
2. Heart and Soul
3. Bad Is Bad
4. I
Want a New Drug
5. Walking on a Thin Line
6. Finally
Found a Home
7. If This Is It
8. You Crack
Me Up
9. Honky Tonk Blues
Product Details
- Audio CD
- Original Release Date: 1983
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Chrysalis
- Catalog # VK 41412
Huey Lewis & the News Biography
Huey Lewis & the News were a bar band that made good. With their
simple, straightforward rock & roll, the San Francisco-based group
became one of America's most popular pop/rock bands of the mid-'80s.
Inspired equally by British pub rock and '60s R&B and rock &
roll, the News had a driving, party-hearty spirit that made songs like
"Workin' for a Livin'," "I Want a New Drug," "The Heart of Rock &
Roll," "Hip to Be Square" and "The Power of Love" yuppie anthems. At
their core, the group were a working band, and they knew how to target
their audience, writing odes to 9-to-5 jobs and sports. As the decade
progressed, the group smoothed out their sound to appeal to the aging
baby boomers who adopted them, but by the beginning of the '90s, the
appeal of their formula had decreased. Nevertheless, the group remained a
popular concert attraction, and they continued to have radio hits on
adult contemporary stations.
The roots of Huey Lewis & the
News lay in Clover, an early-'70s country-rock band from San Francisco
that featured Lewis (vocals, harmonica) and keyboardist Sean Hopper.
Clover moved to England in 1976 upon the urging of Nick Lowe, who
believed they could fit into the U.K.'s pub rock scene. In a short time,
the group cultivated a small following. Lowe produced the group's first
single, "Chicken Funk," which featured lead vocals by Lewis and, the
following year, the band, minus Lewis, supported Elvis Costello on his
debut album, My Aim Is True. Polygram released two Clover albums that
failed to find an audience and when their leader, John McFee, left the
group to join the Doobie Brothers, the band broke up and returned to
California. Before returning to the States, Lewis played harmonica on
Lowe's Labour of Lust and Dave Edmunds' Repeat When Necessary, which
also featured Lewis' song "Bad Is Bad."
Upon their return to
America, Lewis and Hopper began jamming at a Marin County bar called
Uncle Charlies, which is where they formed American Express with Mario
Cipollina (bass), Johnny Colla (saxophone, guitar) and Bill Gibson
(drums), who had all played in Soundhole, one of Van Morrison's backing
bands in the late '70s. American Express recorded a disco version of
"Theme From Exodus," calling it "Exodisco." Mercury released the single,
which was ignored. In 1980, the group added lead guitarist Chris Hayes
and were offered a contract by Chrysalis who requested that the band
change their name. The members chose Huey Lewis & the News and the
band's eponymous debut was released later that year to little attention.
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This, the group's second album, was released early in 1982 and the
record became a hit on the strength of the Top Ten single "Do You
Believe in Love," which was written by former Clover producer Robert
John "Mutt" Lange. A couple other minor hits, "Hope You Love Me Like You
Say You Do" and "Workin' for a Livin'" followed, and the band began
building a strong following by touring heavily. Sports, the group's
third album, was released in the fall of 1983 and it slowly became a
multi-platinum success, thanks to touring and a series of clever, funny
videos that received heavy MTV airplay. "Heart and Soul" (number eight,
1983), "I Want a New Drug" (number six, 1984), "The Heart of Rock &
Roll" (number six, 1984) and "If This Is It" (number six, 1984) all
became Top Ten hits, and Sports climbed to number one in 1984; it would
eventually sell over seven million copies. Late in 1984, Lewis sued Ray
Parker, Jr., claiming that his song "Ghostbusters" plagiarized "I Want a
New Drug." The suit was settled out of court. The News had their first
number one single in 1985 with "The Power of Love," taken from the
soundtrack to Back to the Future.
Huey Lewis & the News
returned with their fourth album, Fore!, in 1986. The record sailed to
number one on the strength of five Top Ten singles: "Stuck With You"
(number one, 1986), "Hip to Be Square" (number three, 1986), "Jacob's
Ladder" (number one, 1987), "I Know What I Like" (number nine, 1987),
and "Doing It All for My Baby" (number six, 1987). The band was riding
high on the charts when they decided to expand their musical reach with
1988's Small World, dipping tentatively into various American roots
musics. While the record produced the Top Ten hit "Perfect World," it
was a commercial disappointment after two chart-topping, multi-platinum
albums, stalling at number 11 on the charts and only going platinum.
The
News took three years to follow up Small World with Hard at Play, which
was released on their new label, EMI. Hard at Play failed to break the
Top 20 and only produced one hit, "Couple Days Off." The group's
commercial heyday had clearly passed, and the group took the remainder
of the '90s rather easy, touring sporadically and releasing the covers
album Four Chords & Several Years Ago in 1994. Their first release
for Elektra Records, the album generated one adult contemporary radio
hit, "But It's Alright," and failed to go gold.
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