Lewis is very intelligent. He graduated from prep school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey at 16, and enrolled at Cornell after spending some time traveling. He didn't last long at Cornell, as he was more interested in making music than studying.
The band is from San Francisco, where they are a big part of the scene. They were regulars at the Bay Area Music Awards and often played the Fillmore auditorium.
Huey Lewis & the News were wildly popular in the mid-'80s. They opened the 1985 Grammy Awards, contributed to the movie Back To The Future, and Lewis sang on "We Are The World." Their albums Sports and Fore! charted 11 Top-10 hits in the US.
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