Huey Lewis was raised in Marin County, California, living in Tamalpais Valley and Strawberry, and attending Strawberry Point Elementary School and Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley.
26 Facts About Huey Lewis
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Huey Lewis attended and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a then-all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967, and he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT.
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Huey Lewis's mother had an extramarital affair with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch, who became his stepfather.
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Huey Lewis's mother was close friends with the Grateful Dead's manager and extended family.
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Huey Lewis talked about hanging out at the airport for three days until he stowed away on a plane to Europe.
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In later interviews, Huey Lewis would reveal other encounters he had traveling around Europe.
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Huey Lewis gave his first concerts in Madrid, earning enough money to buy a plane ticket back to the US.
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Huey Lewis 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.
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Huey Lewis's aim was to continue playing music, though along the way he tried other fields of work including landscaping, carpentry, wedding and event planning, as well as delivering and selling natural foods.
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Huey Lewis played harmonica and sang lead vocals on a few tunes.
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Under the name "Bluesy Huey Lewis", Lewis played harmonica on Thin Lizzy's 1978 landmark album Live and Dangerous.
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At this point, he had adopted the "Huey Lewis" spelling, and the band was billed as Huey Lewis and the American Express.
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Huey Lewis knew Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds from having played harmonica on their 1979 albums and produced Lowe's 1985 version of "I Knew the Bride ".
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Huey Lewis's song "The Power of Love" was a No 1 US hit and was featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, for which they recorded the song, "Back in Time".
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Huey 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.
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Huey Lewis had a planned solo album titled Back in Blue that was canceled in the mid-1990s due to living arrangement issues on the part of Huey Lewis.
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Huey Lewis has sung with Chicago-based progressive jam band Umphrey's McGee at several shows beginning with the 2005 Jammy Awards and is featured on two tracks of their album Safety in Numbers.
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On February 13,2007, Huey Lewis was interviewed on the podcast series Stuck in the 1980s.
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Huey Lewis stated that, given how much the industry has changed since their last album, he was unsure how they would sell the new material.
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Huey Lewis recorded a duet version of "Workin' for a Livin'" with Garth Brooks, which was included on Brooks's three-disc set The Ultimate Hits, in late 2007.
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On May 29,2011, Huey Lewis played the annual Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois, along with Umphrey's McGee.
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Huey Lewis has performed in occasional television roles as well, including One Tree Hill, The King of Queens and a recurring character on Hot in Cleveland.
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Huey Lewis provides the voice of Bulworth the junkyard dog in the animated series Puppy Dog Pals.
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On October 21,2015, on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Huey Lewis reprised his role from Back to the Future in a segment where Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrive in the time machine and talk to the host.
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In 2001, Parker sued Huey Lewis, alleging that in a Behind the Music episode, Huey Lewis had discussed the settlement in violation of their nondisclosure agreement.
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Huey Lewis married his manager's secretary, Sidney Conroy, in 1983 in Hawaii.