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Huey Lewis and the News is the debut album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1980.




Background


In 1979, the band's name was Huey Lewis and the American Express. Under this name they released a single and secured their recording contract with Chrysalis Records at the end of the year. The album was recorded within three weeks and the producer was Bill Schnee, who had produced for Boz Scaggs and Pablo Cruise.
Chrysalis did not like the addition 'American Express' to the band's name, fearing that the credit card company of the same name could sue them. In January 1980, the band changed their name to 'Huey Lewis and the News'.
The album reached No. 203 on the Billboard album chart. Prior to the album's release, the track "Who Cares?" was used in the 1979 motion picture Rock 'n' Roll High School.




Reception



Billboard states that producer Bill Schnee mastered the "clean, sparse rock" that every rock band was trying to achieve at the time by "skinning the uptempo, light rockers down to basic guitars and vocals." In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine says the News turn out "hard-driving covers and originals in a workmanlike fashion" but their "debut suffers from an uneven selection of material."
Record World called the lead single "Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later)" a "fun rocker" in which "the driving rhythm guitars buttress strong lead and harmony vocals."




Track listing






Singles


"Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner or Later)" was written in San Francisco by the band and recorded in Los Angeles within three weeks, and the track was released as the album's first single. The song is about people betraying other people, including friends, old friends, and enemies. The B-side for the single was "Don't Ever Tell Me That You Love Me". Videos were shot for both songs and were later included on the band's 1985 VHS compilation, Video Hits. In 1986, remixes of the songs were included as B-sides to the singles "Hip to Be Square" and "Stuck with You", respectively.
A live recording of the song "Trouble in Paradise" was later included on the charity album We Are the World.




Personnel


Huey Lewis – vocals, harmonica
Chris Hayes – lead guitar, backing vocals
Johnny Colla – rhythm guitar, saxophone, backing vocals
Mario Cipollina – bass
Bill Gibson – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Sean Hopper – keyboards, backing vocals




Production


Bill Schnee – producer, engineer, mixing
Kirk Butler – assistant engineer
Bill Cooper – assistant engineer
Tim Dennen – assistant engineer
Studio 55 (Los Angeles, California) – mixing location
Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
Billy Bass – art direction, cover concept
Rod Dyer – design
Bill Murphy – design
Ron Slenzak – photography
Chris Welch – liner notes
Bob Brown – management




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