We're looking back at the enduring legacy of Huey Lewis & The News' breakout LP Sports and how it remains a dazzling portrait of the era it was made in.
that “It was a do-or-die record, and we had to have a hit single. We didn’t know we were going to have five of them.” Indeed,did so well that it’s grown into one of those titles that’s practically synonymous with the time period it was made in. The album opens with a slightly synthetic-soundingthat leads into the skeletal, proto-electropop groove of opening cut “The Heart of Rock and Roll.
With all that said, however, there’s just no denying these songs, no matter where or how you hear them. While Lewis had struggled, at first, to establish a foothold on radio, scoring a hit off his previous, Mutt Lange-produced albumwith “Do You Believe in Love,” something obviously gelled when the band set out to make, which practically crammed wall-to-wall with hooks.
It’s fitting that the video for “If This Is It” opens with a DJ introducing the song from a boombox on a beach.is the epitome of populist art—the music demands absolutely nothing from the audience. Instead, it simply invites you to enjoy it. Lewis, meanwhile, remains about as un-imposing a pop superstar as we’ve ever encountered. Where other lead vocalists of the era might chew up the scenery, Lewis practically revels in being unremarkable—even though there’s no one else who sings like him.
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