♪ love. love will keep us together. ♪ solid solid as a rock ♪ >> one of the hottest producers in the music business all reveal their secrets to creating a number-one song. >> you want it to pop, that's for sure. >> ahead on sunday morning, what makes a hit a hit as taught by the masters. >> cowan: grammy winners huey lewis and the news have found themselves off stage more than on one lately. this morning, for the record, they'll tell our john blackstone why. >> with fans still eager the hear their hits, huey lewis and the news played about 70 shows a year until their touring came to a sudden end. >> just before a gig in dallas, texas, on january 27, 2018. >> so you were about to go on stage >> i went on stage, and it was horrible. it was just unbelievable. i couldn't hear anything. i sang out of tune. i had the worst night of my life. >> huey lewis on live after rock 'n' roll later on "sunday morning." >> cowan: the beat goes on with one of the artists nominated tonight, a well-known music producer who sat down with us. >> d.j. cal - kli had brought together some of the biggest names in music. >> i nooment just a d.j., an artist or a producer. >> tonight he'll be center sage. >> he goes out there and says, you need the hear. this pay attention to what i'm doing, because what i'm doing is special. >> d.j. khalid. >> d.j. khalid. the king of collaborations ahead on "sunday morning." >> cowan: music is giving a group of boys raised in pofer they chance to dream. with seth doane we'll hear their sox, and just as touching, their story. ♪ ♪ >> they don't need some fancy stage for their talent to shine through. can you describe their sound? >> it's like mngor w,nie madagar for a breathtaking performance. >> cowan: john dickson introduces us to the tries -- and we'll get together with the children'so,trma troub. and we remember allee willis and more. first here are the headlines for january 26, 2020. a third case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the united pao wuhan, china, where the pneumonia-like virus originated. nearly 2,000 cases are reported in china now with 56 deaths. in ankara, turkey, the death toll from friday's earthquake has now raise on the 35. the 6.8 magnitude quake toppled dozens of buildings. 45 survivors from been pulled from the rubble is far. nearly 700 aftershocks have slowed the rescue effort along with subfreezing weather. attorneys for president trump launched their palm beach impeat defense at the capital. they argued the president committed to impeachable acts and accused house democrats of ignoring evidence favorable to the white house. that trial resumes tomorrow. after the session, candidates returned back the iowa to rejoin the campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. senator elizabeth warren got some good news. the "des moines register" announced it's endorsing her. but a new poll puts bernie sanders in the lead in iowa followed by boot judge and more. the lower portion of country can expect temperatures in the 70s for the week ahead, cold but sun and clouds in the east, scattered showers for the south, cool over the plains, but warm and sunny out west. ♪ i've always wanted to met you ♪ >> cowan: ahead... ♪ ever since i heard your voice ♪ >> cowan: could you write a hit song? america isn't just sick of donald trump, america's getting sicker. there are one million more uninsured americans every year under trump. and he's repeatedly tried to repeal obamacare. mike bloomberg will make sure everyone without health coverage can get it, and everyone who likes theirs, keep it. while capping fees to lower costs. as mayor, he helped expand coverage to seven hundred thousand more people. and championed women's reproductive health. as president, he'll give access to everyone. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >> cowan: is there a secret sauce the making music, something tha propels songs to the top of the chart?t just what makes a hit is a question that intrigued our david pogue. ♪ pop, pop, pop music >> and the grammy goes to... >> when you win a grammy, the judges tell you that your song or your album was the best of the year, but they don't tell you why. ♪ pop music >> "shallow," lady gaga. >> they don't tell you what they liked about it. but surely there is a science to writing a hit song. i went on a quest to find out. >> what makes it a hit? there are various notes that go with various chords, and if the sentiment is right, it gives you that in the groin, in the heart, you get those chills. can you understand that? >> yeah. ♪ i loving i love, i love my calendar girl ♪ if anyone understand, it's singer and songwriter neil sedaka. he wrote a huge string of hits starting in the '50s. ♪ happy birthday sweet 16 ♪ ♪ love love will keep us together ♪ >> "love will keep us together" hit number one in 1975. ♪ breaking up is hard to do "breaking up is hard to do" hit number one in 1962. ♪ don't take you love and then again at a slower tempo in 1976 ♪ away froem my heart ♪ in misery when you're writing, do you ever think about music theory stuff, like, oh,his should be a scale? >> i write advocatory, usually not more than a couple of notes, so that it's singable. you can write songs that everyone knows, but you can't write songs that everyone sings. ♪ it's all in me >> a key ingredient of a hit is the hook. >> the hook is the main, you know, thought of the song, you know, like "ain't no mountain high enough." that's the hook. so you want that to be memorable. ♪ baby there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ >> valley simpson and her late husband made up the duo ashford and simpson. they wrote hits for many people, including themselves. is there something you do that signals, this is the hook? like do you make it louder? >> you want it to pop. that's for sure. so you might, you know, go up so it sticks out in a way that it grabs you attention. >> that's exactly what she did in her hit "solid." ♪ solid solid as a rock ♪ ♪ that's what this love is >> we live in such a fragmented world, right? hits make you feel like the world is maybe a slightly smaller and more connected place. >> john seabrook is the author of "the song machine," which describes how hit songs are written today. are there elements that can be counted on the make a hit song? >> it clearly has something to do with reputation, because the brin loves patterns that it can recognize. ♪ i stay out to late >> a perfect example is the taylor swift song "shake it off," and not just in the catchy chorus. ♪ shake it off shake it off ♪ >> but this is the real genius of a pop song, is to make something that's simple enough to be kind of repetitive but doesn't get boring after it's been repeated 200 or 300 times. and that's very, very hard. ♪ help i need somebody ♪ help not just anybody ♪ >> no matter the era, the ingredients for a hit song have all the been melody, rhythm, harmony, and lyrics. but today the way songs are written is almost unrecognizable. it's not even called songwriting anymore. it's called production. >> it used to be writing a song back in the 1906s where you sit at a piano and pull out a pad and you write a song. well, production is that now. you pull out a laptop, you have a keyboard, and you produce a track. >> when you say "track"? >> so track is just another word for then strumal portion of a song. >> oak felder is one of the most sought-after songwriters -- i mean producers -- in pop music today. he's created hits for britdny spears, rihanna, ariana grande, alicia key, kelly clarkson, jennifer lopez, and demi lovato. >> i've always said that muse sick like a conduit of emotion between the creator and the listener. it's the way you can make a person cry listening to a ballad, or it's the way you can make a person shake their booty in the club. you get what i'm saying? >> yeah. i frequently shake booty in the club. >> that's amazing. ♪ baby >> felder got a lot of booty shaking in clubs with his monster hit "sorry, not sorry" sung by demi lovato. it hit number one in 201768 ♪ baby you're sorry oak felder has created hits for plenty of stars, but could he create one with me. >> i want to promote an exercise. i have an idea that's been running in hi head since we walked in the door. i've always wanted to meet you. can we do something like that?çó >> of course. we could do like a straightforward urban track with some pop chords. ♪ i've always wanted to meet you ever since i heard your voice ♪ since the day we first met on the street ♪ you made me feel i had no choice ♪ >> that's crazy. i love it. >> dude, you're a genius. >> it>> w just refleg fri in, i tried to remember everything i had learned about making a song ♪ñr a-b-c >> a memorable hook with just the right amount of reputation. ♪ sweet caroline >> a singable voice range ♪ i'm in love with the shape of you ♪ >> relatable lyrics. ♪ love will keep us together >> but according to john seabrook, there's one more ingredient. ♪ it might seem crazy what i'm about to say ♪ >> it's not just all machines and cold production. at the heart of it, there is still magic in the air.ñi >> valerie simpson says the same thing. >> my inspiration is to say it in a way that you haven't heard it and hope that it means something in your life. i hope that it touches something deep down. for the whole family. new vicks vapopatch. breathe easy. when you drink or eat something that's acidic everyone is at risk for enamel loss. it sucks the minerals out of the tooth's surface. pronamel is formulated to help deliver minerals to the tooth's surface to help reharden and strengthen your enamel. my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic 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year was -- >> alvin! >> okay. ♪ christmas, christmas >> the chipp among song. the all time biggest song, late classical conductor sir george schulte with 31, followed by quincy jones, who has 28 grammy statuettes. it's a safe guess that given the current turmoil in the music academy, there are likely to be changes to respond to, among other things the debate over the grammy selection process. but everyone can agree on this, the official weight of a grammy statuette is six pounds. coming up... child's play. ♪ ♪ wherever we want to go, we just have to start. autosave your way there with chase. chase. make more of what's yours. dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. they changed how the world fights cancer. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. pd-l1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. pd-l1 saved my life. saved my life. saved my life. what we do here at dana-faber, changes lives everywhere. everywhere. 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our kids on raffi. now we're raising our grandkids on raffi. so we just love it. ♪ let me hear you ♪ down by the bay >> that's so good. ♪ shake, shake, shake >> children are having all kinds of fun, but for the adults now, because they're remembering their own childhood. >> yay, raffi. ♪ everybody's got a love bug >> raffi's childhood began in egypt, where he was born raffi cavoukian in 1948. in the hope of a better life, his father decided to move his minority armenian christian family out of the country when raffi was just ten years old. >> he felt that that bright future wasn't possible staying behind in egypt, and he loved his kids. he came to canada for us to live in a free country. >> he took to his adopted country immediately. >> the ice hockey. oh, my god. i didn't play it because i was a pudgy little armenian kid, but i loved the national hockey league games on television. >> but it was the music he discovered on the radio that truly changed his life. >> it was not only motown, but it was pete seeger and peter, paul, and mary and gordon lightfoot, joni mitchell, oh, my god. >> a teenager in the '60s, he was caught up in the burgeoning toronto folk scene, soon picking up a guitar himself. >> i wanted to become somebody like a james taylor. >> but he struggled to make ends meet playing music. then, by chance, he was invited to play for children at a local nursery school. >> i was on the floor, and i was singing a song that my then-wife had taught me. so apparently i did well. >> yes. they said yes, more. >> i was asked to return and sing again for them. and the $10 i got helped in those days. >> his first album, "singable songs for the very young" was released in 1976, a smash hit which led to 20 more albums of toddler classics. ♪ you know the more we get together, together, together ♪ the more we get together the happier we'll be ♪ >> from "the more we get together," to "bananaphone." ♪ ring, ring, ring, ring, ring bananaphone ♪ >> and especially his most famous song, "baby beluga" ♪ baby beluga in the deep blue sea ♪ you swim so wild and you swim so free ♪ >> that's a great line. so wild and you swim so free >> the song was inspired by a whale in captivity in an aquarium, and yet the song set the whale free. >> yes. >> there's something about the water warm is your mama home with you. now, i don't know what little child hears when they hear, that but it must be something, you know, precognitive connecting with them. >> raffi! raffi! >> and he's still connecting with kids today by releasing new music and touring around north america. he spends his down time at his home in the beauty and seclusion of salt spring island, british columbia. >> it's beautiful here. well, i can see how you would have been drawn to this playing. when did you first come here? >> 2008. >> so it's nice to meet you. we've really enjoyed your music. thank you. >> and you can find him every saturday at the farmers' market, manning a table for his non-profit, the foundation for child honoring, which advocates for putting children's needs first when tackling environmental and social problems. >> oh, look at this. look at this. >> hi. >> but as much as children love raffi and vice versa, for someone who loves children so much, you decided not to have children of your own. >> that's true. >> and people are always surprised by this. >> well, back then when my wife and i talked about it, a long time ago, we were always around kids. she was a kindergarten teacher and i was entertaining children, we just felt that we didn't need children of our own, and we decided to honor that feeling. >> you have children, they're just not buy -- by logically your children. >> exactly. >> and you can count my own daughter vivian as one of them. >> right, viv? ♪ every day is a new day spinning round ♪ a new day for me and you ♪ >> thank you, raffi. >> you're welcome, sweetie. ♪ this is it >> cowan: still to come, rocker huey lewis with some news. >> just unbelievable. couldn't hear anything. sang out of tune. i had the worst night of my life. >> cowan: but first, marching to a different drummer. >> let's go, blue! get the care and attention you deserve even faster. that's our promise. now, you can skip the line with walgreens express, get in and out quickly with 24-hour locations, or have your prescriptions delivered whenever you need us, we're always just minutes away. walgreens. and unmatched overall value. together with a dedicated advisor, you'll make a plan that can adjust as your life changes, with access to tax-smart investing strategies that help you keep more of what you earn. and with a new brokerage account, your cash is automatically invested at a great rate that's at least 20 times more than other advisory firms. personalized advice. unmatched value. at fidelity, you can have both. ♪ more than this >> cowan: one of tonight's classical music nominee, the maestro of the los angeles philharmonic, gustavo dudamel. among his talent, he's something of a pied piper to young musicians as john dickerson shows. >> conductor gustavo dudamel is a rock star of the classical music world. ♪ ♪ so how did he end up on a folding chair playing if a public school theater. >> this is like a really big honor. >> violin players francisco guerra and deborah htu -- >> i feel really nervous. >> -- who are high school centers trendton, new jersey, say it was the surprise of their hiervetion -- lives, but for dudamel, it was part of his life's story. when you look at the students playing, what do you see? >> well, i see myself, you know, because it's just exactly the same environment where i grew up, you know. >> a transplant from venezuela who answered to maestro, dudamel now leads the los angeles philharmonic where he was named music director at just 28. he's performed at the super bowl and for pope benedict xvi. now 39, he recently wrapped up a string of performances conducting princeton university students, including this free concert, a long way from his first conducting gig. >> my favorite game at home was to arrange my toys like an orchestra and conduct them. that for me was the most fun part of the day, an i put out a recording. it was an lp. i was rehearsing, seriously, this is not together, this is loud, please play less. let's go back. that made me be what iou , me.ut gatrtis front. >> most of all he credits a venezuelan program that stresses music as a way to enhance lives. and target students when they're young. bob simon featured dudamel and the program on "60 minutes" in 2008. >> el sistema is less a music program than a profound social movement that takes kids off the streets, takes them away from crime and drugs and despair. >> you once said, "the music saved me." >> completely. completesly. >> are you trying to help save others? >> completely. the power of transformation that music has, you know, in the life of children, it's unique. you know, especially for disadvantaged children. what is theñr worst thing? to be poor, to be no one. you are excluded in this society. when you give an instrument some you? >> now an ambassador of the sublime, dudamel travels to cities like trenton where the median household income is about $31,000. >> the trenton music make verse a program inspired we el sistema. >> i play in an orchestra like you. i was making a lot of mistakes. but i was having a lot of fun. >> the government has cut funding for the arts program and it kind of gets pushed to the back. what would you say? >> it's all the time. when it comes to an economic crisis, the first thing that gets cut is art, because art is seen as entertainment, as something elitist, and it's not like that. art has to be part of the fundamental education of a child. the transformation of the society. >> it's the transformation the maestro says happens one student at a time. >> we have the same hair. >> which brings us back the that high school orchestra practice. and violin players deborah htu and francisco guerra. what was it like when he sat down next to you to play? >> i was like freaking out. >> did he say anything to you? >> he said we played good. >> he was very into it. >> infectious excitement is a gustavo dudamel trademark, available to everyone and necessary no matter your profession. do you want to become a musician? >> i want to be a nurse. >> i kind of want to be an engineer. >> even if the students here don't go on to be professional musicians, it still has value? >> absolutely. it's not to be a musician, it's the touch art and have art as part of your life. >> and this is what it sounds like to have art touch your life. >> sometimes i will be having hard time at school, and then i start playing music. it made me forget everything that happened.ñr >> without music, the world would be boring. >> thank you for letting me play with you. will it feel like the wheend of a journey?p working, or the beginning of something even better? when you prepare for retirement with pacific life, you can create a lifelong income... so you have the freedom to keep doing whatever is most meaningful to you. a reliable income that lets you retire, without retiring from life. that's the power of pacific. ask your financial professional about pacific life today. >> cowan: sometimes just a single note can change someone's musical world. with steve hartman, we strike up the band. >> he's only in third grade, but nine-year-old henry boyer of howell, michigan, already knows what he wants to be. last fall he attended his first university of michigan football game, and he was wowed. they were that good? >> my mind was blown with how good they played. >> but it wasn't the football that he fell for. it was the marching band. and from that moment to this, henry has been rocking out the their c.d. >> let's go, blue! >> and watching old halftime shows on youtube. he even wrote a letter to the band. in response, they sent him a bunch of swag and a card invited him to audition when he's old enough. >> i just really like the card. >> what were you feeling in that moment? >> surprised and heartwarmed. >> his mother got it on video. >> what did they say? >> they said they will except me in a few years. >> into what? >> into the marching band. >> are you excited? >> yes, i'm really excited. >> that was nice of them, huh? >> yes. >> beth and jim boyer. >> such a simple act to reach out the him. it's changed his world. >> he's on fire for music now. >> henry asked if he could double up on piano lessons and started taking drum, too. >> like the card said, practice hard, and i will practice hard. >> so you can get there some day? >> yes, i just have really good feeling they e-mail going to be in the marching band. >> if all goes as planned, henry will join the bond in the fall of 2029. but we thought, and the school agreed, that's an awfully long time to wait for a dream to come true, so we set up a little surprise. right behind this door. >> no way. >> henry, this is your michigan marching band. >> no way. ♪ ♪ >> oh. >> we're so excited to have you here with us, henry. >> i can't bereave i'm here. [laughter] >> the michigan marching band wrote out a single note, and just look at the symphony that followed, a masterpiece of kindness and inspiration that struck major chord in this young man's life. so now hopefully no matter where his music takes him, henry will always follow the lead of this marching band and play it forward. >> nice job. [cheering and applause] >> you guys have the best music ever. >> thank you so much. >> i can't wait to join. >> oh yeah,. ♪ ♪ >> cowan: still to come, raising their voices. and later, huey lewis. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. climate is the number 1 priority. i would declare a state of emergency on day 1. congress has never passed an important climate bill, ever. this is a problem that continues to get worse. i've spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies... stopping pipelines... stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. how are we going to pull this country together? we take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world and do it together. dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. pd-l1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. pd-l1 saved my life. saved my life. saved my life. what we do here at dana-faber, changes lives everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. >> cowan: a natural and remarkable talent for song has give some boys in a desperately poor country a chance to dream. we traveled far away with our seth doane to give them a listen. >> amid the hubbub of this bustling city, it was the most unexpected sound. ♪ ♪ pure, simple, the voice of a boy, barely a teen. the first song that we heard was jimmy singing, and it was a song of giving thanks to god for his life. >> the song's meaning later struck virginia somers more considering they're in madagascar, an island country in the indian ocean where nearly 80% of people eke out a living on less than $2 a day. it was 2018 and they had been driving through antananarivo, the capital. >> we were both sitting there lost in our thoughts. that song hit, and we both went, did you hear that? >> this is so unusual, we have to figure out where this is coming from. >> virginia and her husband, john miller, who works at the u.s. embassy, tracked down that boy, jimmy, and learned he had started an a cappella group with his friends. they didn't have a stage, just the street, and it didn't matter. ♪ ♪ what is it about this music that touches you so much? >> it's honest. >> they are amongst the poorest of the poor in madagascar, and it's just almost inconceivable that this could have within happening, yet there it was. ♪ ♪ >> the two were so struck by the boys' talent, they started taking videos and posting them online, and last year those videos have been viewed millions of time. ♪ ♪ we found them in a slum in the center of antananarivo. it's a neighborhood so poor that after it rains raw sewage flows down open pathways. the place teems with activity. when the singing starts, the chaotic lives around them seem to freeze. ♪ the boy, who are ages 11 to 16 and mostly related, are rija tojo, taheri, thierry, aitra, jimmy, njato, and rivo. so hoye did you all learn to sing like this? "i hear people singing outside, so i tried to copy, njato said. "i didn't really learn it," taheri added. "i sorted of inherited it from my family." with such tiny home, life pours into the alleyway, and here music provides a soundtrack the life. or an escape from it. and while not all exhibit the same raw talent, most do share unbridled enthusiasm. this is your house here? one of the boys in the a cappella group, 11-year-old aitra, showed us where he lives, packed in with his parents, am ifly of eight. "now that i've grown up, i'm no longer comfortable sleeping in the same bed as my parents," he admitted. "it's hardship," his father said. "i don't know if it's our fate from god, but we try to raise our kids to the best of our ability." the proud parents have posted awards for the boy's group, zaza kanto. did you know that he had this talent for singing? "the talent comes straight from the both of us," his father said. "i knew he had a good voice," his mother added. those voices and their gusto grabbed nicole bayer. >> what is happening in madagascaratust happened? >> one of miller's colleagues at the u.s. embassy. she was putting together a music event when she saw this video of the boys and immediately invited zaza kanto to contribute. you don't think of an embassy as caring about a group of kids on the street singing. >> well, for us it's important to build bridges of understanding between americans and the countries where we serve. >> through a cultural exchange program called american music abroad, bayer brought to madagascar musician fredo austin of the band freedom's boombox. how rare is this sort of raw talent? >> for eight kids, very rare. they were singing out their love for music. >> austin, whom we met in new york, says he's mentored musicians in about 50 countries but was still marveling about those boys that he med in madagascar and how quickly they had learned. >> one of the things that we incorporated in our workshop he was beatboxing, which is mouth percussion. and when you add that their already amazing vocals, are incredible. and they picked it up quick. >> ladies and gentlemen, i know you are going to be blown away, so please put your hands together for the incredible zaza kanto. >> 2 workshop concluded with a concert which was nationally televised. >> zaza! zaza! >> clips of that concert that we put on our facebook page instantly went viral. it really is a magical group. >> the boys dream of a record deal, but their lives have not changed much, nor h appointment they always keep, each sunday they walk about an hour from their slum to a nicer part of town, constructing a homemade rugby balance along the way the passes the time. their destination is a hostel called the underground where they first met virginia somers and john miller back in 2018. on a good day they can make about $20, a lot of money here. and they can always count on at least two very enthusiastic fans. >> you know, sunday is my day for joy. this is something that is so meaningful for us to create a relationship with these boys. it is something they give to us quite frankly. >> this song, which has become a hit, is about the weakest condemning the powerful, be it bad politicians or fighting parents.ys ld us they love how they feel when they're singing. it gives them strength and a chance to dream. and for those in earshot, virginia somers say this pure sound transforms the city, which can be inhumane, into a place that's utterly human. [applause] ♪ they say the heart of rock 'n' roll is the reason ?oatd and from what i've seen i believe 'em ♪ >> sunday morning, the music makers, and here again is lee cowan. >> cowan: that song gave huey lewis and the news the grammy for best music video 34 years ago. these day, though, huey lewis still has the heart b the ability to make rock 'n' rolotl all utbecause of a rare disease. he tells john blackstone all about it for the record. >> got a good beat. catchy. >> that's a huey lewis and the news sound to it. >> we only worked on this song for about 20 years. >> previewing music from their new album coming out next month, huey lewis and band members johnny colla and bill gibson are in the mood to celebrate. but there is a cloud over the celebration. their new album, "weather," has just seven songs on it. >> you would have wanted to add some songs to this album, but problems struck. >> yes. big problems. when the singer 'tsing, cit'san a problem. >> actually, he sings great, he just can't hear it. >> big breath. >> lewis, who is 69, has spent a lot of time recently being examined by doctors. he can't perform or record. he can't sing, lost my hearing . i was diagnosed with a thing called meniere's disease. >> lewis has been in bands for most of his life and hearing loss is not unusual among rock musician, but his diagnosis, meniere's disease, is not something recommend did with hearing aids alone. >> so the hearing loss, it's not just that you can't hear, it's that things are distorted horribly? >> yeah. like right now i'm having a good day. yesterday was a really bad day. an now i'm having a good day today. but could i play a show where there would be a loud p.a.? probably not, because a bass parted, which would normally sound like bo, bo, bo, bo, bo to me sounds like, [static] like a cacophony. i can't hear anything. ♪ they say the heart of rock 'n' roll is the beat ♪ >> lewis had been successfully performing for decades with minor symptoms of meniere's, but those symptoms suddenly became debilitating. >> just texas, on january 27, 2018. >> so you were about to go on stage >> i went on stage. it was horrible. i couldn't hear anything, sang out of tune,ed that worst night of my life. >> and he was a whole step flat. it was clear that he could not get the pitch of the song. so i remember looking at our bass player, john pierce, we immediately looked at each other andt,en wh- uoh. tour was cance, you guys had been on the road together for more than 3 years pretty much, right? >> more like 40. ♪ do you believe >> 39 years ago in the early '08s, huey lewis and the news was a band struggling for respect. you were booed when you opened forrs >> every single night. >> no. >> oh, come on. doobies, doobies, doobies! >> starting out, lewis played harmonica in a band called clover, one of dozens of bands that worked the bars in marin county, california, where lewis grew up. >> it was very much a bohemian community with the mountains and so on. >> marins a attracted plenty of rock musician, haven away from the city. there is one particular place in marin that lewis put on the map. >> the club known locally as the deuce. >> the deuce. >> this became famous for one reason. >> the cover photo for lewis' big hit album in 1938 was shot in the 2:00 a.m. club, a framed copy remains on the wall. hoye did you choose the deuce te sounded like. we played a lot of club. we're a bar band.çó >> did you havewe going to be mn a bar band? >> oh yeah,. we were convinced we would. you always are. that's part of the mindset. making a living in the music business as a musician is a long shot, so it has to be the only thing you want to do. ♪ this is it >> with sports, huey lewis and the news made that long shot. ♪ i want a new drug one that won't spill ♪ >> the album became a bestseller with four singles hitting the top ten. including "this is it," "i want a new drug," and "heart and soul." ♪ cause she's heart and soul she's heart and soul ♪ inewis future" as a judge in a high school music competition. >> i'm free trade you're just too darned loud. featured lewis' number-one hit, "power of love." he followed that with a few other acting roles in tvowsh s re mained in rock 'n' roll. ♪ they say the heart of rock 'n' roll is the beat ♪ and from what i've seen i believe 'em ♪ it's the heart of rock 'n' roll ♪ >> with loyal fans still eager the hear their music, huey lewis and the news played 70 to 80 shows a year. when they weren't on the road, lewis retreated to montana, where he goes flyfishing and lives on a ranch, 500 acres he bought with his first big paycheck. we visited him there in 2013. >> let's talk about huey lewis as a country gentleman. >> i love it out here. it's a chance to decompress, as they say. [phone ringing] paragraph sorry. >> but the phone is on you all the time. >> back then lewis had no intention of slowing down. do you ever think i've worked enough? >> i do. i think about that, but you thii do. >> now, however, meniere's disease has made the decision for him and his band. >> the hard part for me, i do miss playing a show now and then, and i misadvertise guys, i miss the camaraderie. it's just hard. -guys still get together, testing huey's voice just in case, and joking about their age, as they prepare for the release of what is almost certainly their last album, "weather." where did "weather" come from? >> get it, huey lewis and the news, sports. it's kind of appropriate. we've had some weather.>>en b tt tckting.s rit. >> d.j. khalid >> i'm not just a d.j. i'm in the just an artist. >> ahead, bringing people together. dealing with our finances really haunted me. thankfully, i got quickbooks, and a live bookkeeper's helping customize it for our business. 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>> well, i think he's proven himself. people like being around him and his energy is very contagious, and it makes you excited about whatever he's doing. >> one of those all-stars, r&b singer john legend. >> he defies graftism he's a great example of someone who goes out there, and he is his biggest cheerleader. he goes out there and says, you need the hear this. you need to pay attention to what i'm doing, because what i'm doing is special. >> their latest collaboration is higher with the rapper nipsey hussle. the song is nominated for a grammy award, but it's a bittersweet moment. >> we can go higher, higher, higher. ♪ talk to 'em, talk to 'em >> nipsey hussle was murdered in front of his clothing store just days after filming this video. he was 33 years old. >> he was so powerful, because he came back. he invested in the community. he built things that were lasting, no matter how young we lost him, those things are going to survive. >> john legend and d.j. khaled will perform a tribute to nipsey hussle at tonight's ceremony. >> he's definitely going to be on that stage with us, his spirit, his energy. ♪ we keep going higher >> been khaled mohammed khaled, the son of palestinian immigrants, he says his parents supported his obsession with music, as long as they didn't have to hear it. >> they just told me to have my friends in my room. there would be loud music all day, they've like, we'll give you the garage. i started decorating the garage like a studio. >> you mention both your parentd a different background than maybe some of the other people in the world of hip-hop. is that something that was an obstacle or that people talked about? >> no. i've always been embraced with love from my background and where i'm. from again, i only keep myself around love. >> right. >> any time it doesn't feel like love, i'm out. >> he dropped out of high school and focused on music full time. he was his own best hype man, passing out flyers and c.d.s. >> a lot of people told me i could never make an albup, told me i could never be a d.j., told me i could never be a c.e.o. >> in the '90s, he worked ooze a d.j. at a hip-hop station in miami. he built a big local following and got national record deal. but it wasn't until he discovered social media that he proved front and center. >> i was just being me. the world embraced it. it went viral with love. >> worldwide. worldwide. >> fan love worldwide. fan love is the most incredible thing ever. just the love they show me and the love i show them back. that's what it's about. supporting each other. >> in fact, hours after our interview, he took to social media to announce his latest collaboration, he and his wife nicole welcomed their second child, a baby boy. ♪ another one don't you know ♪ don't you know i am the one for you ♪ >> no matter what happens tonight at the grammys, d.j. khaled is confident that his rise to the top isn't over yet. >> do you ever think, why me? 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>> well, i can tell you that my life quest is to figure that out. >> it was an astonishing life. for starters, willis amassed one of the largest private collections of pop culture memorabilia in the country. beatles pantyhose. i cover everything so anyone can pick it up. i own sammy davis, jr.'s, very last stash of marijuana. >> the items are unique, but it's her story that stands out, and it began when willis was a kid in michigan. >> i grew up in detroit when motown was coming up, so you had a city that had its own soundtrack, records that i went crazy for. >> she loved the music so much, that after school she wound hang out by hitsville. >> i would get dropped off, and i would sit on the front lawn every single saturday. >> so you're this white girl sitting on the front steps of motown. >> every saturday. ♪ stop in the name of love >> willis left detroit, but the music stayed with her. he wrote liner notes on albums for a record company and then tried to write her own melodies. >> in 1972, there was a ballot out called "alone again naturally" by gilbert o'sullivan. >> gilbert o'sullivan. i love that song. >> yes, points for you. >> it always makes me agree. >> kills me. i was on a bus. i started scribbling my own lyrics to it. >> she became a song writer and in a few year got a life-changing call from maurice wife from earth, wind, and fire who asked for help on a tune he was working on, maybe you've heard of it. ♪ do you remember >> the first thing he told me was, it has to be called "september," and he had "do you remember, 21st day of september." first thing i said, day has to go. it's got to be night, it's more romantic. i hung up the phone. it was like, this has got to be a joke. this there's no way this is actually happening. i'm looking at the food stamps and going, do i need bread. >> released in 1978, "september" is one of the most popular disco and dance songs of all time. ♪ my heart was ringing the souls were singing ♪ >> "september" was big. so was willis' next collaboration with earth, wind and fire, "boogie wonderland." >> we wanted to use the word "boogie," because everyone was using it. i would always write the whole alphabet, what rhymes with boogie. >> more hits followed. willis cowrote a couple songs from the "beverly hills cop" soundtrack. 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