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NZ Herald
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
The psychology of being cool
Is it hip to be square? Huey Lewis and the News said so in 1986. I still have the LP in fact, so does that make me hip, or just square? Or maybe you can be cool only if you're a 'long cool woman in a black dress', as The
Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Huey Lewis: ‘I got picked up hitchhiking in America by an ex-convict'
The lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News retired from performing in 2018 having suffered hearing loss for years. His band hit the big time with their third album, Sports, in 1983, which sold over 30 million copies. Their 1984 album Fore! spent 52 weeks in the UK charts and The Power of Love single featured in the Michael J Fox hit film Back to the Future. Lewis, 74, lives on a ranch in Montana. Aged 17 I spent a year bumming around broke in Europe, often sleeping by the side of the road, but it helped me to find my future. I stowed away on a plane to London after somebody that picked me up hitchhiking across America told me how to do it. It was 1967, the Summer of Love, and I sat on a TWA bench at New York's Idlewild [now John F Kennedy] Airport for three days. Then I befriended a pre-computers counter attendant who got me on a flight to London. The trick involved a silver pen for writing my flight and seat number on a special ticket … and generally making myself invisible. Hitchhiking from Spain to Portugal, I lost my passport after a ride with a slightly hammered Dutch guy in his 1930 Chevrolet, which ended up in a river. I had to go back to the embassy in Seville for another. But the fee was $20 and I had to busk to raise it, playing with a harmonica. Some students liked my act, heard I needed money and threw a concert for me: my first, and very nerve-wracking. I not only got the $20 but a bell went off in my head: this is what I want to do. I love British people, even though in the Seventies I toured in the band Clover with Thin Lizzy and got booed off every stage around the UK. When we became big in America, in 1983, I told my manager I wanted to go to Europe. The record companies gasped because we'd sold zero records there until then. But we went, playing at tiny clubs and London's Marquee Club, and we ended up with gold records in most of Europe. Childhood holidays in Marin County, California, were always camping, fishing or sailing with my brother and parents. Or we'd pack up our little car and go abalone-diving on the California coast. My dad and I went fly-fishing a lot and had close calls sailing, once getting stranded in San Francisco Bay and having to wait four hours for the tide to come back in. • Read our full guide to California Nowadays I never travel without my hearing aids. I have a cochlear implant in my left side that enables me to hear because I'm mostly deaf. My hearing's so bad I can't perform any more or hear music when I sing. So you might as well fish! Fishing's wonderful for hearing-impaired people because fish don't talk. • 10 of the best places to visit in the US I live on a river in Montana where we fish all the time, and I have my own drift boat and raft. I've had Nick Faldo in my boat, Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Costner, Michael Keaton … my fishing pals. Every year I go down to Espiritu Santo Bay in Mexico with a group to fish for permit, bonefish and baby tarpon. I go steelhead (trout) river fishing in British Columbia, my biggest a 38-inch, 25-pound on a dry fly; and I've caught a 120-pound tarpon in Florida. My travel style is a mix of camping and five-star hotels. If you want to put it all together, I love Poronui, in Taharua Valley in New Zealand, which is a world-class fly fishing lodge meets luxury hotel. I also fish for trout in Scotland and, as a golfer (handicap 7) have played 16 times in the annual pro-am Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St Andrews and Carnoustie. • Read our full guide to New Zealand Some holidays have been pretty seat of your pants, like trout fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, where you'd be in a tiny seaplane taking off from, and landing in, rivers. Seeing bears, moose and cranes was great; you just hoped the pilots knew what they were doing. I was nearly mugged in Morocco once, until the thieves realised I had nothing for them to take. Another time I got picked up hitchhiking in America by an ex-convict who siphoned gas at night all the way from southern California to Denver, Colorado. I had $200 on me but wasn't telling Heart of Rock and Roll, a musical featuring Huey Lewis and The News's music, finished its Broadway run last year and is expected to reach the UK in 2026 In our weekly My Hols interview, famous faces – from the worlds of film, sport, music, politics, and more – share their travel stories from childhood to the present day. Read more My Hols interviews here.
San Francisco Chronicle
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Huey Lewis joins search for missing ‘Back to the Future' guitar, talks hearing loss
Huey Lewis is lending a hand in recovering Marty McFly's iconic guitar from 'Back to the Future.' Various stars of the 1985 science-fiction film have united to support an international effort to uncover the whereabouts of the cherry red ES-345 guitar that McFly played 'Johnny B. Goode' on in honor of the film's 40th anniversary. Gibson, the guitar's manufacturer, is leading the effort and enlisted the Huey Lewis and the News singer, who made music for the film and had an on-screen cameo, along with others such as franchise stars Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd and Harry Waters Jr., for a call to action video released Tuesday, June 3. 'Well, it's pretty amazing, really. I mean, to think about what it might be worth, right?' Lewis told People Magazine. 'So whoever's got this thing, wherever it is. I mean, forget the actual guitar and the financial thing, there's a great story there, obviously.' He also speculated that since there were several guitar techs on set, 'maybe somebody fell on hard times and had to sell it.' 'Who knows what that story is,' Lewis continued. 'But it's fairly interesting and apparently, because of the frets, it will be identifiable' Those with information about the guitar's location can submit tips online at or by calling 1-855-345-1955. Meanwhile, Gibson Films is working on a documentary about the search, featuring interviews with cast members and musicians that have been inspired by 'Back to the Future,' including Lewis. The Grammy-winning musician wrote and performed the hit song 'The Power of Love' for the film, but has since retired from live performances after announcing that he suffers from significant hearing loss due to Ménière's disease in 2018. During a recent conversation with People Magazine, Lewis shared a positive outlook on the diagnosis. 'This is my cross to bear. I have a cochlear implant in my head that now enables me to hear speech much better,' he said, noting that he still can't hear music. 'I'm still a lucky guy and there are lots of people out there worse than I am. And it is very hard to remember that sometimes, but my kids help me do that. … You have to rebalance and things, but it doesn't mean that life is terrible.' Though he's not able to enjoy music the way he used to, Lewis' disease hasn't stopped him. In 2020, Huey Lewis and the News put out its first new project in 19 years, ' Weather,' which was recorded around five to six years prior to Lewis' hearing loss. He also devoted time to the jukebox musical, ' The Heart of Rock and Roll,' centered on his band's 1980s hits such as 'The Power of Love' and 'I Want a New Drug,' and a still-to-be-released mockumentary series that delves into his life and hearing loss.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Huey Lewis shares update on living with Ménière's Disease
Huey Lewis has shared an update on his journey with the condition Ménière's Disease. The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter told People magazine: "I'm no spring chicken, so something's going to happen at some point." "And this is my cross to bear. I have a cochlear implant in my head that now enables me to hear speech much better. I lost bilaterally, my hearing. The intense vertigo - knock on wood - I have kind of outgrown. I'm mildly dizzy all the time, and my hearing just went to zero. "And now I have a cochlear implant, so I'm much better that way, but I can't hear music." Lewis continued, "The worst part is that means it's bad enough not to be able to perform and sing and play, but it's really bad not to even be able to enjoy music." The Hip to Be Square singer recalled performing and recording as "the best feeling in the world". "But I'm never going to get there. I mean, I might get to where I can try to, and I'm not going to give up. I'm going to try. But jeez, that kind of fun, that kind of great ride. I doubt I'm ever going to see that, feel that, again." In a 2021 AARP interview, Lewis shared that he had been diagnosed with Ménière's Disease 25 years earlier, but noted that his vertigo attacks had been happening for closer to 35 years.
CTV News
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Where's Marty McFly's guitar? Search is on for ‘Back to the Future' prop 4 decades later
Michael J. Fox arrives at A Country Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's in Nashville, Tenn., on April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in 'Back to the Future' and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-travelling back to the 1980s. The guitar, in real life, wasn't as lucky. Filmmakers went looking for the instrument while making the movie's 1989 sequel, but even now it's nowhere to be found. Four decades after the blockbuster film debuted, the guitar's creator has launched a search for the iconic Cherry Red Gibson ES-345. Gibson, which is based in Nashville, is asking the public for help tracking it down as the movie turns 40 and as the company produces a new documentary about the search and the film, 'Lost to the Future.' In a video by Gibson, with the movie's theme song playing in the background, 'Back to the Future' stars such as Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Harry Waters Jr. make a cinematic plea. There's also a surprise appearance by Huey Lewis, whose band Huey Lewis and the News performed the soundtrack's headliner song, 'The Power of Love.' Lloyd, in the cadence of Doc Brown, says in the video that the guitar has been 'lost to the future.' 'It's somewhere lost in the space-time continuum,' says Fox, who played McFly. 'Or it's in some Teamster's garage.' In the film, McFly steps in for an injured band member at the 1955 school dance with the theme 'Enchantment under the Sea,' playing the guitar as students slow dance to 'Earth Angel.' He then leads Marvin Barry and the Starlighters in a rendition of 'Johnny B. Goode,' calling it an oldie where he comes was from even though the 1958 song doesn't exist yet for his audience. Fox said he wanted McFly to riff through his favorite guitarists' signature styles — Jimi Hendrix behind the head, Pete Townshend's windmill and the Eddie Van Halen hammer. After digging and dancing to 'Johnny B. Goode,' the students at the dance fall into an awkward silence as McFly's riffs turn increasingly wild. 'I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet,' McFly says. 'But your kids are gonna love it.' Jonathan Mattise, The Associated Press
