The eight-piece band, complete with a full horn section, plays about as tight a set as any rock group in American history.
Huey Lewis is a consummate performer, prancing about as he sings in his distinctive voice and playing a mean harmonica during the band’s many extended jam sessions. The band kept alive the jazz-like tradition of horn-nfused 1950s rock ‘n’ roll in a period dominated by New Wave electronic music and grandiose hard rock hair bands. Huey Lewis and The News became one of the channel’s biggest and most consistent stars, with a string of hit songs throughout the ‘80s. In those days before the Internet, the channel actually did play music 24 hours a day and was the musical connection for most young music fans across the nation. What did exist in the ‘80s, was a new concept in television, a 24-hour music channel called MTV.
“There were no cell phones, no Internet connections, no glasses and a lot more hair,” he joked.
