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Huey Lewis and the News is an American pop rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top ten singles across the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts. Their greatest success was in the 1980s with the number-one album, ''Sports'', coupled with a series of highly successful MTV videos. Their worldwide fame expanded when the song "The Power of Love" was featured as a key track in the film ''Back to the Future'' (in which Lewis had a cameo appearance), became a number-one hit, and was nominated for an Academy Award. The News combined a rock (and sometimes, a "blues-rock") backing with soul and doo-wop-influenced harmony vocals and Lewis' voice. ==History== In 1972, singer/harmonica player Huey Lewis (then billed as Huey Louis) and keyboardist Sean Hopper joined the Bay Area jazz-funk band Clover. Clover recorded several albums in the 1970s, and in the middle of the decade transplanted themselves to England to become part of the UK pub rock scene for a time. Without Lewis (but with Hopper), they eventually became the original backing band for Elvis Costello's first album ''My Aim Is True''. Lewis also worked with Irish band Thin Lizzy, contributing harmonica to the song "Baby Drives Me Crazy", recorded onstage for the ''Live and Dangerous'' album. Lizzy bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott introduces Lewis by name during the song. The band returned to the Bay Area by the end of the 1970s. Clover's main competition in the Bay Area jazz-funk scene was a band called Soundhole, whose members included drummer Bill Gibson, saxophonist/guitarist Johnny Colla, and bassist Mario Cipollina (younger brother of John Cipollina). Like Clover, Soundhole had spent time backing the famous singer and recording artist, Van Morrison. After getting a singles contract from Phonogram Records in 1978, Huey Lewis recruited Hopper, Gibson, Colla, and Cippolina to form a new group, Huey Lewis & The American Express. Though they played gigs under this name, in 1979 they recorded and released a single simply as "American Express". The single, "Exodisco" (a disco version of the theme from the film ''Exodus'') was largely ignored. The B-side of this record, "Kick Back", was a song that had previously been performed live by Lewis and his former band, Clover. In 1979, the band wooed guitarist Chris Hayes and moved to Chrysalis Records which occurred when their demo tape was heard by Pablo Cruise manager Bob Brown, who helped them land a record deal with the label. Chrysalis did not like the name 'American Express', fearing trademark infringement charges from the credit card company, so the band changed their name. Later in 1980, the band issued their first studio album, a self-titled LP, ''Huey Lewis and the News''. It went largely unnoticed. In 1982, the band released their second studio album, the self-produced ''Picture This''. The album turned gold, fueled by the breakout success of the hit single "Do You Believe in Love", written by former Clover producer Mutt Lange. Largely because of the single, the album remained on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart for 35 weeks and peaked at No. 13. The follow-up singles from ''Picture This'', "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do" and "Workin' for a Livin'", followed with limited success. Due to record label delays on the release of their third studio album, ''Sports'', Huey Lewis and the News was back to square one in late 1983, touring small clubs in a bus to promote the record (eventually known as the "Workin' for a Livin'" tour). The new album initially hit No. 6 in the U.S. when first released. However, ''Sports'' slowly became a number-one hit in 1984 and multi-platinum success in 1985, thanks to the band's frequent touring and a series of videos that received heavy MTV airplay. Four singles from the album reached the top ten of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100: "Heart and Soul" reached No. 8, while "I Want a New Drug", "The Heart of Rock & Roll", and "If This Is It" all reached No. 6. The album has sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone. Their song "The Power of Love" was a number-one U.S. hit and featured in the 1985 film ''Back to the Future'', for which they also recorded the song, "Back in Time". Lewis has a cameo appearance in the film as a faculty member who rejects Marty McFly's band's audition for the school's "Battle of the Bands" contest. As an inside joke, the piece the band plays is an instrumental heavy metal version of "The Power of Love" (Lewis's response: "Hold it, fellas ... I'm afraid you're just too darn loud"). "The Power of Love" was nominated for an Academy Award. Following the success of "The Power of Love" and ''Back to the Future'', Huey Lewis and the News released their fourth studio album, ''Fore!'' in 1986. ''Fore!'' followed the success of ''Sports'' and reached number-one on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album spawned the number-one singles, "Stuck with You" and "Jacob's Ladder" as well as the mainstream rock hit "Hip to Be Square". In all, the album had five top-ten singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and was certified triple platinum. The band continued to tour throughout 1987, and released ''Small World'' in 1988. After the previous two multi-platinum albums, ''Small World'' was considered 'noticeably weaker', peaking at No. 11 and only going platinum. The album had one top ten single, "Perfect World", which reached No. 3 on the pop chart. At the end of the Small World tour in 1989, the band took a break from recording and heavy touring and parted ways with Chrysalis Records. In 1991, they released ''Hard at Play'' on the EMI label, which went back to the R&B/rock sound of their earlier albums, and released the hit singles, "Couple Days Off" (No. 11) and "It Hit Me Like a Hammer" (No. 21). The album was certified Gold (eventually hitting the one million sales mark) and the band headlined another world tour in support of the release, which would be their last album of new material for a decade. The band once again changed labels, this time signing with Elektra Records, releasing a cover album in 1994 called ''Four Chords & Several Years Ago'' featuring doo-wop and rock songs from the 1950s and 1960s. This was the last album released with bassist Mario Cipollina, who left the band after the Four Chords & Several Years Ago world tour ended. The album charted on the ''Billboard'' 200 and had two hits on adult contemporary radio. In early 1997, the band released their first greatest hits album, ''Time Flies'', which focused primarily on the releases from ''Picture This'', ''Sports'', and ''Fore!'', and included four new tracks. 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 and the News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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