The original name of his band was "Huey Lewis and the American Express". It was later changed to "Huey Lewis and the News" due to legal reasons.

Although Lewis licensed "Hip to Be Square" for use in the movie American Psycho for a 6 figure sum, he forbade the song to be included on the CD soundtrack release (a few early pressings of the CD included the song).

His parents divorced when he was 13.

Attended Monte Vista High School in Danville, CA.

When the Band Clover broke up he formed Huey Lewis & The News, the so-called 80s Band.

He is the leader of Huey Lewis and the News.

Scored a perfect 800 on his math SATs.

Huey Lewis successfully sued Ray Parker Jr. for plagiarizing the medley to his song "I Want A New Drug". They settled out of court and agreed not to talk about the case in public. In 2001, Lewis talked about the case in public when he revealed that Parker paid to settle the suit on an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music" (1997). Parker then sued Lewis for violating the terms of their agreement.

During an interview, he said that he learned how to play the harmonica while hitchhiking across Europe.

Huey Lewis & The News won the British Phonographic Industry Award for International Group in 1986.

Attended Cornell University, majoring in engineering, but dropped out after his junior year, because he was in a band called Clover and they were preparing for rock stardom. Clover (minus Huey Lewis) provided the instrumentals for Elvis Costello's debut album, "My Aim Is True".

In 1967 he graduated from Lawrenceville Prep at the age of 16 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Enjoys playing golf.

On the song "Hip to be Square", from the album "Fore!", the backup singers at the end of the song include San Fransisco 49er stars Dwight Clark, Ronnie Lott and Joe Montana.

He has a brother named Jeff.

Has two children, son Austin (born 1985) and daughter Kelly (born 1983).

Huey dropped out of Cornell University to spend a year living in Europe playing the harp.