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Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), better known by his professional name of Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is best-known for their third, and best-selling, album ''Sports'', and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film ''Back to the Future''. Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979. ==Early life== Huey Lewis was born in New York City. His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg, Jr., MD, was an Irish American from Boston, Massachusetts, and his mother, Maria Magdalena, was Polish, from Warsaw. Lewis was raised in Marin County, California, attending Strawberry Point Elementary School (where he skipped second grade)〔 and Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley. When he was 13, his parents divorced. He attended and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, an all-male prep school in New Jersey,〔 in 1967, and 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, New York. His mother entered a relationship with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch who became Lewis' stepfather. In an interview with David Letterman,〔(Letterman '84 interview ) at the newsline.net 〕 Lewis talked about hitchhiking across the country back to New York City and how he learned to play the harmonica while waiting for rides. He talked about hanging out at the airport for three days until he stowed away on a plane to Europe. In later interviews, Lewis would reveal other encounters while traveling Europe. While visiting the British city of Aberdeen, Scotland, with no money and nowhere to sleep, Lewis claimed that the locals were very hospitable and would often offer him somewhere to stay. In Madrid, Spain, Lewis 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 USA. Upon his return, Lewis entered the engineering program at Cornell University. While there he made friends with Lance and Larry Hoppen who later played with Orleans and Eddie Tuleja of King Harvest. Initially an active student and a member of the fraternity Eta Lambda Nu, Lewis soon lost interest in college. He signed up with a band called Slippery Elm and in December 1969, during his junior year. He dropped out of Cornell and moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area. His aim was to continue playing music though along the way he also tried other fields of work including landscaping, carpentry, wedding and event planning as well as delivering and selling natural foods.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Huey Lewis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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