THIS BAR band came out of nowhere in the eighties to take over radio… Huey Lewis and the News stole the spotlight... Especially in what may have been music's most competitive year…1984 where they snuck in for 1 week to take #1 with their album Sports when Prince, Van Halen Michael Jackson, and Duran Duran were battling it out up next this legendary artist tells the story of I Want a New Drug, a song he wrote in just minutes… he was driving and had the song..he quickly pulled over and ran into an office and screamed for a pen and paper and wrote it in about 90s seconds, then later it was part of a huge lawsuit when the film Ghostbusters asked him to write a song for their soundtrack and when he had to decline they allegedly asked another artist to write a song with a similar sound… The story is coming up next.

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Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and songs of all time. If you love the history of music straight from the artists who created them, you’ll want to be a full-time part of this channel by subscribing below and make sure to hit the bell so you always get our daily features Also check out more content at our page on patreon to become an insider. It’s time for another episode of our series revelations where featured artists reveal rare stories about their greatest songs.

On this installment of Revelations, we have one of the coolest guys in the industry who shook the 80s by its foundations. He had two massive albums back to back as well as eleven top-ten hits including 3 that went all the way to #1. I’m talking about the only news source I trust… Huey Lewis and the news. It started with Do You Believe in Love which hit #7 in 1982 and then he rocked 1984 with his multiplatinum mega record Sports… With the huge hits Heart and Soul, the Heart of Rock and Roll, and today’s feature… I Want a New Drug.

This is a song that he wrote in about 90s seconds… He rushed into an office after it came to him in the car and begged for a pen and paper. He’ll tell you the rest. However one of the biggest parts of the story of this #1 hit that Weird Al parodied so brilliantly is the story of what happened after I Want a New Drug… Huey is barred from talking about it. But as a matter of what we do know…

In 1984, the comedy Ghostbusters hit theaters and blew up our culture like few movies before it… It was the biggest blockbuster of one of the greatest summer movie extravaganzas ever….And its theme song by Ray Parker Jr. ruled radio hitting #1. Only thing is, that it sounded a lot like the second single from Huey LEwi’s album Sports. I Want A New Drug. So this has been a very touchy subject in the past so I’ll tread lightly… According to some legends, several artists were approached by the Ghostbuster people to create a theme song that would have the word Ghostbusters in the chorus or title. I’ve heard several people say that Huey Lewis, Glenn Frey, and Lindsay Buckingham were all offered to do it and all three declined… So they offered it to Ray Parker Jr. Who was coming off some great hits of his own. RayParker Jr. said yes.