What was the greatest american band?
My friends, I can settle this right now. The greatest American band of all time is Huey Lewis and the News. Before you laugh or hurl insults, consider that the band scored a number of #1 hits in the 1980s, and the last time I checked held the #2 spot overall for the most #1 hits in that decade. List all the musical acts of the 1980s by how many songs went to #1, and Huey and the guys come in second. Impressive. Charting so many songs like this shows that they’re marketable. They had tons and tons of radio play, wrote some songs for Back to the Future, and then moved away from the pop rock that had served them so well and into some R&B type of material. Now R&B’s not so profitable in that it doesn’t score the commercial radio play. Still, the band has released a number of solid albums as they changed styles – Small World, Fore Chords and Seven Years Ago, Plan B… all very good albums that are far away from their 80s pop start. A few months ago the band released a live album, Live At 25
