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Huey, Judy and Jimmy

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Marc Myers
Feb 15, 2020
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This week in
The Wall Street Journal, my "Anatomy of a Song" column for the arts section was on Huey Lewis and the News's The Power of Love (go here). The 1985 hit nearly didn't happen when Huey balked at writing a song called Back to the Future and was a little uncertain about writing for a movie, something he had never done before. The movie's team to…

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