The Tragedy Of Huey Lewis

For a few years in the 1980s, Huey Lewis & the News were the kings of the music hill. The group's poppy, crisp rock and Lewis' distinctive voice helped the band score a string of beloved hits. Here's a look at the real-life story of Huey Lewis.

Huey Lewis was born in 1950 in New York City as Hugh Anthony Gregg III. When he was 4 years old, however, his jazz-drumming radiologist father and commercial artist mother moved to San Francisco's Marin County. The area was a center for the bohemian arts movement, and it was closer to nature than the Big Apple. Lewis was a very smart kid with an early interest in music, so the club-filled area fueled his interests. Unfortunately, the blissful family life didn't last for long, because the musician's parents divorced when he was still young.

In a 2001 interview with journalist Jill Kramer, Lewis said that the divorce happened when he was 11 or 12, and hinted that the split wasn't entirely amiable. However, in a 2019 post on the Huey Lewis & The News' official Facebook page, the singer notes that the cloud of divorce had an unexpected silver lining.

His mother started renting out a room in their home, and the tenant just happened to be a folk musician called Billy Roberts, whose instruments of choice were the guitar and the harmonica. As Lewis noted in the Facebook post:

"[Billy Roberts] had a zillion harmonicas, and he gave me a bunch of his old ones. That's how I first got into them."

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His parents divorced | 0:14
Prep school problems | 1:25
Trouble on the road | 2:27
Passed on making big money | 3:42
Lost hearing in right ear | 4:28
American Psycho boycott | 5:31
Ray Parker Jr. controversy | 6:50
Separated from his wife | 8:10
Second time losing his hearing | 9:04
Personal struggles after hearing loss | 10:25

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