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The MTV boy next door Huey Lewis charmed his way to the top of the charts with a straight ahead brand of rock 'n' roll that tasted great and was less filling. What started with "heart & sweat" in Northern California's country western bars culminated in the mid-'80s, when Lewis and his boys sold more than Ten million copies of their sing-along smash,Sports. Both criticized and cherished for its substance-free, conservative predictability, the music of Huey Lewis and the News is a reminder of the material world that perished at the hands of early '90s Seattle rock.

Born in 1951 in Mill Valley, Calif., as Hugh Anthony Cregg III. The future face of the 1980's would back pack around Europe after High School, eventually ending up back in the Bay Area Country Rock outfit Clover with Future News member Sean Hopper. The high point of Clover's career would see them getting a record deal (through fan Nick Lowe),shooting off to England & releasing to flop albums pr...