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NYC-born Huey Lewis dropped out of university in his late teens to join the rock’n’roll circus in 1969. Having graduated through Slippery Elm to become lead vocalist and harmonica player with Clover, Lewis was ultimately ‘discovered’ by Nick Lowe, who encouraged him to come to the UK to try his luck on the burgeoning pre-punk pub-rock scene. After guesting on Thin Lizzy’s Live And Dangerous, Lewis formed Huey Lewis And The News in 1978. Five years later, their third album Sports exploded, going multi-platinum in the US and spawning four Top 10 hits. Supernova success ensued when The Power Of Love appeared on the Back To The Future soundtrack Tragically, since being diagnosed with Ménière’s disease in 2018, Lewis has faced significant hearing problems that have effectively halted his music career.
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In the 1960s, musicians and music fans across the world began to be intrigued by the blues. Searching for it, they would inevitably be led to Chicago and, once there, to two Chicago institutions: a store called the Jazz Record Mart and a record label called Delmark. At the store, visitors found not only records, but informed guidance to who was playing where on the city’s vibrant club scene. On the label they discovered multiple voices of the blues, from veterans of the 1920s and 30s to the new generation of Windy City artists such as Magic Sam, Junior Wells and Luther Allison.