Back in 1983, My sister brought home a copy of a cassette tape of an Album called 'Sports' by Huey Lewis and band called the News, with big Hits like 'Heart of Rock N' Roll', we waited as Huey shouted our town of 'Portland, Oregon', and his other hit, 'I want a new Drug'. Why was a older looking man sounding so Hip and Square at the same time?
I remember my sister coming back from a 1984 concert, wearing a 'Sports' T-shirt. I really didn't get into Huey Lewis as much as my sister, but I do recall Huey being part of 'We are the World' and singing with our future ally, Cyndi Lauper and Kim Carnes in the music video and loving his hit, "Power of Love" in the Back to the Future. In the 90's Huey and News kind of disappeared until now.
In honor of the 30th Anniversary of the 'Sports' Album, Huey and the News are back on tour and played at the Oregon Zoo this past Saturday and Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo this past Sunday. The show was sold out and the weather was perfect.
Huey (and the News) came on stage and performed the whole 'Sports' Album live which
I Want a New Drug, Walking on a Thin Line, If This Is It, and Honky Tonk Blues.
Then we got to hear a new song, 'While We're Young', that has the same rhythm as any of their Hits. We were remind that the group released their first single 5 years before 'Sports' with 1978's "Trouble in Paradise". Huey ended the set with "Some Kind of Wonderful" and the Bluesy, "We're Not Here for a Long Time (We're Here for a Good Time)" Huey and the news left the stage, but returned because a songs were missing.
During the encore, half the crowd was shouting "Power of Love" and the other were shouting for the 1990 Hit, 'Back in Time'. 'Love' won the fight.
I was still waiting for 'Hip to be Square", but got "Do You Believe in Love", and "Workin' for a Livin'" (Who he had dedicated to the unemployed) and ended with a Bluesy Honky Tonk version of "Bad is Bad". At 63, Huey still looks the same, as the fans are getting older and still appreciate his sound 30 years later.
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