HUEY LEWIS: THE LONG WAIT

HUEY LEWIS: THE LONG WAIT

There really seems to be some connection between Huey Lewis and waiting. Consider the following: when CBS took over the distribution chores for Chrysalis Records—the label Huey Lewis & The News—Sports had been on the shelf, ready to go for over six months. Still, CBS waited. When the lalbum was finally released, of course, it became a huge success—six times platinum, and still on the charts after two /ears. So now it’s the fan who has to wait for the next Huey .ewis album.

_WVhich doesn’t even begin to match the wait for success fuey & The News have gone through. Talk about majoreague waiting...

Originally, the band was called Clover, and Huey wasn’t he lead singer—he was only the harmonica player. Clover ound themselves in England during the punk movement, vhich was a bit unfortunate. As Huey himself puts it: “The lex Pistols were breaking. The Clash had just had their first ig. We were this nice, friendly country-rock band. Wrong.” Well, wrong for the time, perhaps, but right after the long vait. And the long trip home to San Francisco, where the lew name was born. Finally, after backing Elvis Costello without Huey) and Dave Edmunds (only Huey, on larmonica), the guys took their hard-earned session money Jd made a demo tape of their own. The tape found its way 3 Chrysalis, and, according to Huey: “Three weeks later, ney came to see us, and three months later we were igned.” The long wait was over.

R"t with Sports still pulling considerable chart weight, it's that fans will have to be content with the two hits from 's Back To The Future—“The Power Of Love” and In Time”—for at least a little while longer. Huey's getting a lot of film offers, but from what he says (“I probably screw up a perfectly good music career with movie”), it’s obviously just a matter of time until the ’s out.