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Artist | Huey Lewis & The News
Title | I Want A New Drug (Called Love)
Genre | Rock Format | EP
Source | Vinyl Time | 16:00
Label | Chrysalis Store | 1984
Catalog | CHS 12 2776 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 260 kbps Size | 31.44 MB
Freq | 48.0 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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A1. I Want A New Drug (Called Love) (12" Mix) 5:32
A2. I Want A New Drug (Called Love) (7" Mix) 3:31
B1. Heard and Soul 3:51
B2. (Tattoo) Giving It All Up For Love 3:06
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Huey Lewis & the News were a bar band that made good. With their simple,
straightforward rock & roll, the San Francisco-based group became one of
America's most popular pop/rock bands of the mid-'80s. Inspired equally by
British pub rock and '60s R&B and rock & roll, The News had a driving,
party-hearty spirit that made songs like "Workin' for a Livin'," "I Want a
Drug," "The Heart of Rock & Roll," "Hip to Be Square," and "The Power of
Love" yuppie anthems. At its core, the group was a working band, and the
bandmembers knew how to target their audience, writing odes to nine-to-five
jobs and sports. As the decade progressed, Huey Lewis & the News smoothed
out their sound to appeal to the aging baby boomers who adopted them, but
by the beginning of the '90s, the appeal of their formula had decreased.
Nevertheless, the group remained a popular concert attraction, and
continued to have radio hits on adult contemporary stations.
"I Want A New Drug" was released in January 1984 as the second single from
Huey Lewis & the News' third album "Sports", following the top-ten hit
"Heart And Soul". The single reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot
100 and topped the Dance Club Play chart. According to Lewis, he wrote the
song in only a few minutes. "I was on the way to my attorney's house and I
thought of it in the car. I pulled up and walked in. I said, 'Bob, give me
a piece of paper, I've got to write this down'". When the similarities
between this song and the theme song of the 1984 film Ghostbusters were
heard, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarism, claiming that Parker
had stolen the melody from "I Want A New Drug". Lewis had been approached
to compose the main theme song for the film, but had to decline because of
his work on the soundtrack for Back to the Future. The two parties settled
out of court.
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