“We’re looking at the movie going, ‘Urgh! It’s kinda cheesy. I don’t know if this is going to work”: How Chris Hayes wrote Huey Lewis and the News’ Back To The Future hit Power Of Love in his pyjamas

Chris Hayes [left] wears a purple checked shirt and plays his 1957 Stratocaster in the studio; Michael J. Fox tears it up onstage as Marty McFly in the 1985 blockbuster Back To The Future.

The Power Of Love was a track that Huey Lewis and the News were not all that interested in writing. They were busy. They had a record to make. And besides, they didn’t know how to write for the movies. But all things considered, it worked out for them.

One of two tracks the band contributed to the Back To The Future soundtrack, the Power Of Love scored them their first number one. They got nominated for an Academy Award. And such was the single’s success that it put pressure on director Robert Zemeckis to finish the movie and get it out.