Huey Lewis and the News is a pop rock band from San Francisco who had a series of hit singles in the 1980s and early 90s. They’re best known for their “instantly memorable hooks, driven home with economical precision by a tight bar band,” [1] especially in their back-to-back multiplatinum albums Sports (1983) and Fore (1986). Their song “Hip to be Square,” on Fore!, was made famous in a scene in American Psycho, in which Pat Bateman says:

In ‘87, Huey released Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is “Hip to Be Square,” a song so catchy most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.

The band got its start when singer and harmonica player Huey Lewis and keyboardist Sean Hopper hooked up with a Bay Area jazz-funk band called Clover.

After Fore! the band declined in stature, and the lineup changed substantially. They recorded the theme song to the 2008 movie Pineapple Express.