Hit Film Had the #1 Movie Song of 1985-But a MAJOR Screw Up KILLED The Soundtrack!-Professor of Rock

Coming up, an interview with a true 80s icon, Huey Lewis and the News on one of the biggest songs of the 80s. The Power of Love from the 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future. He was in the midst of a huge album in Sports that had 4 big hits Heart and Soul, The Heart of Rock and Roll, I Want a New Drug and This is It. Then he got invited to sit down with the biggest director in film history, Steven Spielberg, who wanted Huey to write a song for his new movie because as he explained… the main character Marty McFly would be a fan of his band… Huey had never written for film before and was hesitant… He told Robert Zemeckis and Spielberg he didn’t want to write a song with the same name as the movie. The director said fine just send me the next thing you write… He did just that and it became a #1 smash… Only problem is the filmmakers didn’t capitalize on it and they missed a window to have a big soundtrack album…up next is the story of how this singer gave 10% of the song’s royalties to an old friend for coming up with the title of the song. Only problem is the title was the same as 2 other hits at the time. also how he had a cameo in the movie… See if you remember next….

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Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember spending entire afternoons at that ancient dwelling known as the mall you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia Make sure to, subscribe below right now so you always get our latest interviews and stories You’ll love what we have coming down the pipeline. Especially today.

I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations - where featured artists take us for a magical deep dive, exploring their greatest songs and albums. Stories and points of view you won’t find anywhere else. Well, today is a special one. This was my favorite song when I was 10 years old. It came out in the glorious summer of 1985. It was the main song from not only the greatest blockbuster of 1985 but maybe the best film of the 80s and we’ve got the master behind it with us today. I’m talking about the Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News from the magical time travel classic Back to the Future. Truly the Wizard of Oz of our time…

It's a movie that our kids watch… It’s not quite in that category, yet but you get what I’m saying. So apparently Huey Lewis was called into a meeting with the biggest filmmaker in the world Steven Spielberg who was producing the film along with Director Bob Zemeckis and his partner Bob Gale who both wrote the screenplay as well. They told Huey they wanted him to write a song for this movie because the film's hero Marty McFly would be a fan of Huey Lewis and the News. Huey was flying high at that moment in time with Sports having spent 1 week at #1 on the album charts in the ultra-competitive year of 1984 where the least amount of albums went to #1 ever.

It was the year of 3 of the biggest blockbusters ever with Michael Jackson's Thriller still riding high, and Prince's Purple Rain that spent 24 weeks at the top, along with Springsteen’s mega-seller Born in the USA, not to mention The Footloose soundtrack…