Huey Lewis and the News are known for such hits as “Hip To Be Square,” “I Want a New Drug” and “The Power of Love.”
Contributed photoAs a mobile disc jockey in Dalton, Ga., in 1986, current 107.9 Big FM program director Rick Zeisig said he snapped up the Huey Lewis and The News album “Fore!” just after its release and played the single “Hip To Be Square” for a high-school dance audience.
“They went totally wild,” he said. “They asked what it was, and I think I ended up playing it twice.”
The pop/rock/blues band, which has largely stayed together and continued to tour since its mid-1980s heyday, will be the opening Coca-Cola Stage act for the 2011 Riverbend Festival tonight.
The Grammy Award-winning group has sold 20 million albums worldwide, had back-to-back No. 1 albums (“Sports” in 1983 and “Fore!” in 1986) and had 12 of 13 singles in Billboard’s Hot 100 to hit the Top 10.
The San Francisco Bay area band’s still got it, according to at least one reviewer of the band’s performance at the Summer Camp Music Festival at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Ohio.