This show is one of multiple dates recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour while Huey Lewis & the News were on their promotional tour for the band's second album, Picture This. Picture This would be the band's breakthrough album with the hit single, "Do You Believe In Love" (although that track is not included in this recording).
This performance has less popular material ("Some Of My Lies Are True (Sooner of Later),” "Workin' For A Living," "Buzz Buzz Buzz," "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do," and "Who Cares?"), but it does mark the beginning of the band's…entire summary
Huey Lewis - vocals, harmonica
Mario Cipollina - bass
Chris Hayes - guitar
Sean Hopper - keyboards
Bill Gibson - drums
Johnny Colla - saxophone, guitar
Guests: Tower of Power Horns
This show is one of multiple dates recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour while Huey Lewis & the News were on their promotional tour for the band's second album, Picture This. Picture This would be the band's breakthrough album with the hit single, "Do You Believe In Love" (although that track is not included in this recording).
This performance has less popular material ("Some Of My Lies Are True (Sooner of Later),” "Workin' For A Living," "Buzz Buzz Buzz," "Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do," and "Who Cares?"), but it does mark the beginning of the band's commercial breakthrough and the dawn of its long association with famed producer, John "Mutt” Lange (AC/DC, Foreigner). Although the focus is on Lewis himself (his chiseled good looks had something to do with the band's large female following), this live radio broadcast is testament to how great a band the News actually were.
Huey Lewis and the News morphed from a San Francisco-based band called Clover, formed in 1967, which eventually included Lewis on harmonica and Sean Hopper on keyboards. The group (which also contained guitarist John McFee, who would later leave to join the Doobie Brothers) relocated to London at the urging of producer/artist Nick Lowe, who felt they would fit in perfectly with the U.K. pub scene. Members of Clover would also go on to be the backing band on the first Elvis Costello album, My Aim Is True.
When Clover released two albums and failed to chart a hit, they returned to San Francisco to form the band that would eventually become the News. The group recorded a handful of demos with the help of Mutt Lange and signed with Chrysalis Records, who suggested the name Huey Lewis & the News.
The band would go on to have bigger hits and become darlings of the MTV programmers, and this early performance shows how tight they were from the very start.
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