Editing Huey Lewis and the News (section)

===Mainstream success===
Due to record label delays on the release of their third studio album, ''[[Sports (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Sports]]'', Huey Lewis and the News returned in late 1983 to touring small clubs in a bus to promote the record (eventually known as the "Workin' for a Livin'" tour). The new album initially hit number six in the U.S. when first released. However, ''Sports'' slowly became a number-one hit in 1984, and went multi-platinum in 1985, thanks to the band's frequent touring and a series of videos that received heavy MTV airplay. Four singles from the album reached the top 10 of the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]: "[[Heart and Soul (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Heart and Soul]]" reached number eight, while "[[I Want a New Drug]]", "[[The Heart of Rock & Roll]]", and "[[If This Is It (Huey Lewis and the News song)|If This Is It]]" all reached number six. The album has sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone.

At the beginning of 1985, the band participated in the all-star [[USA for Africa]] [[Charity record|charity single]] "[[We Are the World]]", with Lewis taking a solo vocal. The song topped music charts throughout the world and became the fastest-selling American pop single in history. They were to play the Philadelphia leg of the [[Live Aid]] benefit concert that July, but pulled out two weeks before the concert over concerns that the money raised by the single and other efforts had not been spent to benefit [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia|Ethiopian famine]] victims, earning them vociferous criticism from USA for Africa organizer [[Harry Belafonte]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Michael |title=Live Aid 1985: The Day the World Rocked |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/live-aid-1985-the-day-the-world-rocked-180152/ |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]] |date=August 16, 1985 |access-date=July 13, 2019}}</ref> A year later a ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' article suggested that much of the money raised from the single and concert had been misspent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spin.com/featured/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/ |title=Live Aid: The Terrible Truth |work=Spin |date=July 13, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-bob-geldof-response-spin-1986-feature/ |title=Live Aid: Bob Geldof's Original Response to SPIN's 1986 Exposé |work=Spin |date=July 15, 2015}}</ref>

Their song "[[The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)|The Power of Love]]" was a number-one U.S. hit and featured in the 1985 film ''[[Back to the Future]]'', for which they also recorded the song, "[[Back in Time (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Back in Time]]". Lewis has a cameo appearance in the film as a faculty member who rejects Marty McFly's band's audition for the school's "Battle of the Bands" contest. As an inside joke, the piece the band plays is an instrumental hard rock version of "The Power of Love" (Lewis's response: "Hold it, fellas ... I'm afraid you're just too darn loud"). "The Power of Love" was nominated for an Academy Award.

Following the success of "The Power of Love" and ''Back to the Future'', Huey Lewis and the News released their fourth studio album, ''[[Fore!]]'', in 1986. ''Fore!'' followed the success of ''Sports'' and reached number-one on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album spawned the number-one singles, "[[Stuck with You]]" and "[[Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Jacob's Ladder]]", as well as the [[mainstream rock]] hit "[[Hip to Be Square]]". In all, the album had five top-ten singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and was certified triple platinum.

The band continued to tour throughout 1987, and released ''[[Small World (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Small World]]'' in 1988. After the previous two multi-platinum albums, ''Small World'' was considered "noticeably weaker", peaking at number 11 and only going platinum.<ref name=AllMusic>{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |title=Huey Lewis & the News Small World Review |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/small-world-mw0000200849 |website=All Music |access-date=May 27, 2015}}</ref> The album had one top-ten single, "Perfect World", which reached number three on the pop chart.<ref name=BatemanReview>{{cite web |last=Bateman |first=Patrick |title=Reviews Music |url=http://patbatemanreviews.tumblr.com/post/638379791/huey-lewis-and-the-news |website=Patrick Bateman |access-date=May 27, 2015 |date=May 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528030955/http://patbatemanreviews.tumblr.com/post/638379791/huey-lewis-and-the-news |archive-date=May 28, 2015 }}</ref>

At the end of the Small World tour in 1989, the band took a break from recording and heavy touring, and parted ways with Chrysalis Records. In 1991, they released ''[[Hard at Play]]'' on the [[EMI Records|EMI]] label in the US and Chrysalis in the UK,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Huey-Lewis-The-News-Hard-At-Play/release/3020355 |title=Huey Lewis & The News - Hard At Play |website=Discogs|date=May 7, 1991 }}</ref> which went back to the R&B/rock sound of their earlier albums, and released the hit singles "[[Couple Days Off]]" (number 11) and "It Hit Me Like a Hammer" (number 21).

The band once again changed labels, this time signing with [[Elektra Records]], releasing a cover album in 1994 called ''[[Four Chords & Several Years Ago]]'', featuring [[doo-wop]] and rock songs from the 1950s and 1960s. The album charted on the ''Billboard'' 200 and had two hits on [[Adult contemporary music|adult contemporary]] radio.

In early 1996, the band released the greatest hits album ''[[Time Flies... The Best of|Time Flies]]'' which focused primarily on the releases from ''Picture This'', ''Sports'', and ''Fore!'', and included four new tracks.