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Creem Profiles

HUEY LEWIS

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

May 1, 1984

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HOME: Finally found one!

AGE: As young and old as the Honky Tonk Blues.

PROFESSION: Workin’ for a livin’.

HOBBIES: Looking for a new drug, cracking up, believing in love, giving it all up for the same.

LAST BOOK READ: Have You Heard The News? by Dewey and Louie.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Walking on a thin line.

QUOTE: “Cool is the rule, but sometimes bad is bad!”

PROFILE: An ace harmonica player, Huey spent six years playing with Clover, a Marin County band. Clover moved to England in the mid-’70s, backed Elvis Costello on My Aim Is True, and Huey ended up playing on LPs by Dave Edmunds and Phil Lynott. The band broke up when guitarist John McFee joined the Doobie Brothers, and Huey returned to the States, recruited new musicans (including a brother of a Quicksilver Messenger Service alumpus), formed the News in ’79, and the rest is rock ’n’ roll!

BEER: Boy Howdy!