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On Friday (Feb. 14), Huey Lewis & the News will release Weather, the durable group’s first album of new original material in nearly 20 years.

A couple years ago, Huey Lewis acknowledges, the glass was more than half empty. The Meniere's disease he had contracted several decades ago had turned into a full-fledged disability, and, unable to hear properly enough to sing at a January 2018 corporate show in Dallas, his performing career appeared to be over.

“I never should have written ‘Hip to be Square’ in the third-person,” says Huey Lewis of the News fame. The man who has sold more than 30 million records, spawning such ‘80s classics as “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “I Want a New Drug,” the Oscar-nominated “The Power of Love” and the song he’s fretting about now, a narrative lynchpin in both the book and film of Brett Easton Ellis/Mary Harron’s “American Psycho.” “People though I was singing about myself.”