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According to Lewis, his father was an amateur jazz drummer who expressed himself better through music than words.
“He was a hard ass and he just didn’t do that.”
However, they continued to battle in court over their young son’s education.
“It was kind of an ugly scene,” Lewis told Kramer.
“The judge finally asked me if I really wanted to go and I said, yeah.”
With that, he went to school on the East Coast.
It wasn’t all fun and games, however.
He would often sit on the side of the road for hours in hopes of getting a ride.
A potentially more dangerous situation ensued when Lewis lost his passport while returning from Morocco.
Not only was the American embassy closed for the weekend, Lewis was short of cash.
No, it was not theshortest celebrity marriageby any stretch, but it certainly didn’t go the distance.
Lewis never remarried and has kept his love life on the down low.
He has reportedly remained friendly with his ex and is close with his now grown children.
“He has turned into this wonderful person who looks after his father,” the singer said.
“And I need some looking after.
So I’m very pleased.”
Huey Lewis accused Ray Parker Jr. of ripping off his song
Here’s where things get messy.
And as far as Lewis was concerned, Parker’s song stuck too close to his own song.
Lewis sued Parker and Columbia Pictures for copyright infringement, and they ultimately settled out of court.
Per the agreement, Lewis was to never speak of it again.
That should have been it but wait, there’s more.
Parker pounced on his remarks as a violation of the confidentiality agreement, and sued Lewis.
The results of that case have seemingly not been disclosed.
In 1983,Pepsi started making commercials featuring Michael Jackson.
They actually said to me, ‘We think you have what we call ‘Cokeness.'"
Likability or not, Lewis shot them down, a decision he later seemed to regret.
“In retrospect, it was probably a mistake,” he told the magazine.
“It could have been good for the career forget the money.”
At the time though, he toldCNBC, it felt like being a sellout.
“We had just started selling out concerts, making more money than we’d ever made.
And I thought why would I do this for money?
I’m an artist.
I’m an artist, and an idiot.”
“I couldn’t shake it out or pop my ears,” he recalled toRolling Stone.
I said, ‘Get used to it?
I’m a musician!'"
“It’s a syndrome based on symptoms,” the singer told Rolling Stone.
In January 2018, however, his hearing in his left ear dropped during a small show in Dallas.
Lewis tried everything to restore his hearing, ranging from meeting with world renowned experts to trying alternative methods.
However, nothing worked, and he unfortunately had to shut the door on his career as a performer.
“In the first two months of this, I was suicidal,” he confessed.
“I can honestly share that with you.
I thought, s***, I’m just going to commit suicide.
I actually contemplated my demise.”
“I said, ‘Our fans have to buy this record for one song?
Can we politely decline?'”
“So I boycotted the movie from there on.
I refused to watch it,” he said.
In an interview withM Live, the singer elaborated.
Lewis claimed he was targeted by locals because of his celebrity status.
“It became cause celeb to go after these ‘rich guys,'” Lewis toldWhitefish Reviewin 2019.
Which was a lie."
“And now the resource has been decimated,” the singer told the magazine.
“It’s like 10 percent of the fishery it used to be.”
He added that the ruling was a loss for everyone involved.
“The policies from on high are too access oriented.
They don’t consider the resource enough.
Policy should start with the resource.”
The deal includes the band’s most familiar and best-selling hits from the height of their fame.
“John Luneau, Primary Wave Music’s Senior Counsel, echoed the sentiment.
However, parting ways with his body of work presumably must’ve been bittersweet to some degree.
After all, as Madonna once said inVariety, “Ownership is everything isn’t it?”
“Well, we’re very excited.
We’ve been working on it for a long time,” the singer-songwriter toldPeople.
And boy, it’s been a salvation for me personally, and it’s really been gratifying.”
“I have thought about this show every day, almost constantly … for almost 8 months now.
And tomorrow, that’s going to stop.
And that’s a very sad thing for me,” he said perPeople.
Lewis went on to share his love of the stage, and to praise the cast for their performances.
In his closing remarks, he added, “I’m not going to say goodbye, Broadway.
I’m just going to say like we say in musical theatre: ‘til we meet next time.”
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