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3	->''"Their early work was a little too {{New Wave\|Music}} for my tastes, but when ''Sports'' came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically."''
4	-->-- '''Patrick Bateman''', ''Film/AmericanPsycho''
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6	Huey Lewis and the News are a brass rock/RAndB band from UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco fronted by vocalist/harmonica player Huey Lewis.
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8	The band evolved out of Clover, a Bay Area country rock band that moved to UsefulNotes/{{London}} during the pub rock years. Clover minus Lewis backed Music/ElvisCostello on most of ''Music/MyAimIsTrue''. Lewis and most of Clover's then-current lineup formed The News soon after returning to San Francisco in 1978.
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10	The group's heyday was the TheEighties, where their brand of feel-good rock and roll and memorably cheesy music videos made them a staple of the older Creator/{{MTV}} crowd. Some of their most famous songs include "Hip to Be Square" (famously used in a scene in ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' when protagonist Patrick Bateman frantically analyzes the song before chopping up his colleague with an ax), "I Want A New Drug," "Do You Believe In Love" and "Stuck With You." They also contributed two songs to ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', "The Power of Love" and "Back in Time", and Lewis himself also makes a cameo in the film.
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12	Their popularity waned considerably in TheNineties and their recordings have since become far more sporadic, releasing only four albums between 1991 and 2010, two of which were covers albums. They remained a hugely popular touring act until 2018, when Lewis was diagnosed with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re%27s_disease Meniere's disease]], an auditory disorder which can cause significant hearing loss, forcing the band to cancel any and all future tours indefinitely. A new album, ''Weather'', recorded before Lewis's condition worsened, was released in 2020. Lewis later said that the band will continue if he can stabilize his hearing.
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14	Not to be confused with ''WebVideo/HewysAnimatedMovieReviews''. And [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 certainly]] [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse not with]] [[WesternAnimation/QuackPack one of]] WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 nephews]].
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16	!!'''I used to be a renegade, I used to trope around''':
17	* AffectionateParody: Of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', in their video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpdZvewjwJs Doing It All for My Baby]]".
18	* ArtistAndTheBand: The band was previously named Huey Lewis & The American Express but changed their name after fearing a trademark infringement lawsuit from the credit card company.
19	* AttentiveShadeLowering: One of Huey's signature moves. In "I Want a New Drug," he gets in his car just as a woman rides by on her bike, and he lowers his sunglasses to gawk at her.
20	* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Their name follows that pattern.
21	* CityShoutOuts: "The Heart of Rock and Roll" gets this in live performances. There's also a regional version that mentions Syracuse and Albany, NY, as well as West Coast and East Coast versions for Canadian radio, with the former mentioning Vancouver and the latter mentioning Toronto and Montreal.
22	* CoolShades: Huey, especially in his [[TheEighties 1980s]] videos.
23	* CoverVersion:
24	** "It's Alright" by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions.
25	** "''But'' It's Alright" by J.J. Jackson.
26	** "Do You Believe in Love" by Supercharge.
27	* DownInTheDumps: Part of their "Perfect World" video takes place in a junkyard, probably to underscore what the lyrics are saying "there's no living in a perfect world; there ain't no perfect world anyway."
28	* TheEighties: They were very part of that zeitgeist.
29	* FailedASpotCheck: In the music video for "Stuck With You", Huey and his love interest are stranded on a tropical beach. After struggling and failing to do things like build a shelter and harvest food, they finally realize that there's a resort located right behind them.
30	* FormerTeenRebel: The subject of "Hip to be Square."
31	* HeartbeatSoundtrack: One opens and closes "The Heart of Rock & Roll".
32	* HeavyMeta: "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
33	* LongRunnerLineup: Type 1 and Type 2. Their first line-up of Lewis, Chris Hayes (lead guitar), Johnny Colla (rhythm guitar/sax), Sean Hopper (keys), Mario Cipollina (bass) and Bill Gibson (drums) lasted from the group's founding in 1979 through to 1995 when Cipollina was replaced by John Pierce. After Stef Burns replaced Hayes in 2001, the band's line-up remained unchanged until 2016.
34	* LoveIsADrug: "I Want a New Drug" implies that no drug compares to the feeling of being 'alone with you'.
35	* LyricalDissonance: "Hip To Be Square" is an upbeat song about giving up the rebellious attitude of youth, becoming a boring middle-aged man and liking it.
36	* MortonsFork: In "Workin' for a Livin'":
37	-->''Damned if you do, damned if you don't.''
38	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Small World'' saw the band experimenting more with smooth jazz, polyrhythms and white reggae. It was also an experiment they wouldn't attempt again, going back to their more familiar R&B/rock sound for their next album ''Hard At Play.''
39	* ThePowerOfFriendship: "I Never Walk Alone" concerns the benefits of having someone else to help you in the difficult points of life.
40	* ThePowerOfLove: Possibly the trope-namer, as the title of one of their most famous songs. Probably the trope-codifier.
41	* SesameStreetCred: Granted they didn't perform the song themselves, but "Hip To Be Square" was parodied as "It's Hip To Be '''A''' Square" on ''Series/SesameStreet.''
42	* ShellShockedVeteran: "Walking on a Thin Line"
43	* StageName: Huey Lewis' real name is Hugh Cregg III.
44	* TrueLoveIsBoring: "Stuck With You"

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