Episode 82: Huey Lewis - The Heart of Rock & Roll

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Huey Anthony Cregg hit it big in the early 80’s with his band named "Huey Lewis and The News." Many of their songs went large on the Billboard hits, but you can’t get any bigger than the bands #1, Grammy winning song, "The Heart of Rock and Roll!” In 1984, his “Sports” album was a number one seller, a year when Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and Prince were all over the airwaves and MTV was in its prime. Huey is 72 now - He was traveling, singing, and performing 75 shows a year until 2018 when Meniere's Disease stole his hearing in a matter of seconds at an event in Dallas. It was lost for good. Gone was the music, but also too was the greatness of sound itself. Hearing loss became a war he’ll most likely wage for the rest of his life. Today's podcast is a human interest story that not only shares Huey’s life in music but the great evolution of music in America. How Jazz, the blues and rock evolved profoundly through legendary black singer-songwriters like Chuck Berry. But, more importantly, we understand how fishing has kept this music giant in the game of life now that he can no longer perform.

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0:00.0	In the music of Huey Lewis rocketed to the top of the Billboard lists. His sports album was
0:16.1	number one in 1984 and in 1985 Lewis won a Grammy for his song, The Heart of Rock and Roll. For 38 years, Healy
0:26.2	toured and performed his beloved music until his health failed him in 2018.
0:31.9	In a matter of a second his hearing was gone. Although his music will
0:36.7	live on forever, his performing days are over unless the magic of medicine
0:41.7	prevails.
0:43.0	On today's podcast, we speak about his spectacular life, his hearing loss,
0:49.0	and how fishing keeps his life on the road.
1:08.0	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing. We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
1:13.6	pain he's won the pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other
1:17.7	way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
1:21.3	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:26.0	I got him on.
1:28.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:31.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:35.0	And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:40.0	And I said that's exactly who I am.
1:42.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:48.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly wow what a ride There's something busy going on here. Hugh, it's just such an honor to have you in the podcast, you know, I know how much you love fishing.
2:18.0	You know, we're going to talk about your music, your hearing loss in 2018 and how fishing may have really became more and more prolific
2:27.1	it may have possibly saved your life.
2:29.2	So there's a really a lot to speak about and I just like to you know to say also too I love your passion for conservation.
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