Huey Lewis and the News
A decade before ESPN’s Jock Rock and Jock Jams compilations, there was Huey Lewis & the News. The group’s two biggest records were hilariously called Fore! and Sports, and San Francisco 49ers Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott sang backing vocals on the hit “Hip to Be Square.” So what if it’s your dad’s favorite band? Huey Lewis and the News is a sports-rock pioneer! The party ended sometime around the early 1990s, but that cutup Lewis is still hanging around, and he still surprises every once in a while. (His 2000 cover of Smokey Robinson’s “Cruisin’,” a duet with Gwyneth Paltrow, was an unlikely hit.) The group stops at Starlight Theatre as part of its Soulsville Tour, which includes old Stax Records hits from the 1960s and ’70s. Perhaps they’ll also play a song that sounds like the Ghostbusters theme.
