“When we first opened for the Doobie Brothers, we got booed,” Lewis was quoted as saying in the post. “Our first show, I think we had like 10 or 11 songs. As soon as a song would end, the boos would start. We learned to launch right into the next song immediately, so we didn't give the crowd a chance to boo.”
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“I think it was just obvious how great a band they were,” he recalled. “You didn't have to be, you know, they didn't have to have any hit records for us to know that they were super talented musicians and, you know, they had great songs. That first record, I don't know if they even had a hit off that very first record, but we knew they were a great band. just you know it was there easy to see.”
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In a 2003 interview published by Pop Culture Classics, Lewis recalled being invited by Doobie Brothers guitarist John McFee to open for the band after previously working with him.
Lewis then revealed that he quickly figured out how to avoid getting booed off stage.
By the mid-1980s, Huey Lewis and the News became stars in their own right. Their 1983 album Sports featured several MTV-ready hits, and in 1985 their song "The Power of Love” was featured in the blockbuster movie Back to the Future.
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