Huey Lewis and the News’ I Want a New Drug is famous not only for being a huge US hit, but also for helping to inspire an even bigger one.
Released in 1984, the song became the second single from the News’ third album, Sports, which had dropped the year before and saw the band achieve their big commercial breakthrough. I Want a New Drug peaked at number 6 in the Billboard Hot 100, but attention was refocused on it when, in June 1984, Ray Parker Jr’s theme from the original Ghostbusters movie was released, and people started to notice some similarities.
