American pop rock group Huey Lewis and the News is located in San Francisco, California. They had a string of top ten hits in the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts during the 1980s and early 1990s, totaling 19 them. Their music has been categorized as blue-eyed soul, new wave, power pop, and root rock. Their style is influenced by previous pop, rhythm & blues, and doo-wop performers.
When the song “The Power of Love” was incorporated into the 1985 movie Back to the Future, their fame increased tremendously. The song “The Power of Love” topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles list and was nominated for the Best Original Song Academy Award at the 58th Academy Awards. Fore!, the group’s 1986 album, which included the songs “Stuck with You” and “Jacob’s Ladder,” provided two more number-one hits. Do You Believe in Love, Heart, and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, If This Is It, Hip to Be Square, I Know What I Like, Doing It All for My Baby, and Perfect World are some of the band’s other top 10 songs. Weather, the group’s most recent album, was released in February 2020.
