Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis
Hugh Anthony Cregg III, known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 July 1950
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
jam people pop
This is where people get it wrong. Some see us as a pop band, but we never have been just a pop band. Some see us as an '80s band. But if we started today, we'd be a jam band.
heart long creative
I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.
greatness thinking play
A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
relationship drinking thinking
You've been thinking and I've been drinking.
song new-york inspiration
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.
san-francisco paradise natural
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
cheer people
It's true, I do like cheering people up.
choices creative be-creative
The choices I make - they have to be creative.
sports fall june
After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
sports albums records
Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
sports years land
In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
radio able way
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
couple work missing
Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.
home office track
I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.