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| Huey Lewis & the News formerly known as Huey Lewis & the American Express are a popular American rock band whose greatest success was in the 1980s, when they were one of the most popular music acts of the decade. Huey Lewis and Sean Hopper played together in the countrish/rock outfit Clover, who were the original backing band for Elvis Costello's first album "My Aim Is True", before he attracted The Attractions. Their song "The Power of Love" was a #1 U.S. hit and featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, with which they also recorded the theme song "Back In Time". The band's lead singer is Huey Lewis, who has a cameo appearance in the film as the teacher who rejects Marty McFly's band's audition for the school's "Battle of the Bands" contest—ironically, the piece the band plays is an instrumental version of "The Power of Love". "The Power of Love" was nominated for an Academy Award. Their former bass player, Mario Cipollina, is the younger brother of John Cipollina. With the 1984 release of Ghostbusters, Huey Lewis & the News sued the author of the film title song, Ray Parker Jr.. The suit cited similarities between his theme song and their earlier hit "I Want a New Drug". According to Huey Lewis and the News, this was especially damaging to them since the Ghostbusters theme song was so popular, rising to #1 on the charts for three weeks. The band won the case and Parker Jr. was ordered to pay damages. The band was earlier approached to write the theme song for the movie. The News Personnel
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