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Description
In this oral history, singer Huey Lewis recounts his life in Marin and his career in music. Born in Manhattan in 1950, Huey's parents Hugh and Magda moved to Marin when he was five years old and the family settled in Strawberry Point. Huey evokes the distinctive character of Mill Valley in the 1950s and '60s. With a musical father and a bohemian mother, Huey first started playing music at the age of 11. Huey attended Strawberry Point School and then Edna Maguire before going to a preparatory school on the East Coast, returning to Mill Valley for the summers. After a year bumming around Europe and North Africa and playing his harmonica, and then a few years at Cornell University, Huey moved back to Mill Valley and started his musical career. Huey recounts his years playing with the local group Clover during the 1970s and then the band that made him famous, Huey Lewis and the News (going on 38 years at the time this oral history was recorded). Huey shares his memories of the bands, clubs, and recording studios that existed during the heyday of Marin's music scene as well as his reflections on how Mill Valley has changed over the decades.
Identifier
99918034-BD5E-41EB-8916-976511493778 2017.146.001
Subject
2am Club Beatniks Butch Engle & the Styx Call, Alex Champlin, Bill Chord Lords Ciambotti, John Clover Composers Cregg, Hugh Cregg, Magda Deal, Charlie Edna Maguire Middle School Figeuroa, Eddie Gibson, Bill Goddard, John Greenwood, Bob Harmonicas Hereford Hartstringers Homes Hopper, Sean Howie, Mitch Marin City McFee, John Music Musicians MV history - Music and counterculture (1960s and 1970s) Old Mill Tavern Oral history - Music Outdoor Art and Garden Club Pat and Joe's Peet's Coffee Peppermill Record industry Roberts, Billy Rock the Ages Sound recording Sports Strawberry Point Strawberry Point Elementary School Summer of Love Sutton, Ralph Sweetwater The Opposite Six The Redwoods Throckmorton Theatre Village Music Welch, Lew
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