There’s a twinkle in Huey Lewis’s eye as he contemplates the damage that 20 million album sales have done to his career. “People think we’re a pop band,” he says, “but we’re not a pop band. Never have been. We just had some huge successes that hurt us a little.”
Well, it’s not so much the multi-million album sales as the dozen consecutive American Top 20 hits that have irrevocably branded Huey Lewis & The News as a pop band. What’s more, they shamelessly contrived to get hits.
