Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart Of Rock & Roll Lyrics






New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be
Where else can you do a half a million things
All at a quarter to three

When they play their music, ooh that modern music
They like it with a lot of style
But it's still that same old back beat rhythm
That really really drives 'em wild

They say the heart of rock and roll is still beating
And from what I've seen I believe 'em
Now the old boy may be barely breathing
But the heart of rock and roll, heart of rock and roll is still beating

LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see
Neon lights and the pretty pretty girls
All dressed so scantily

When they play their music, that hard rock music
They like it with a lot of flash
But it's still that same old back beat rhythm
That really kicks 'em in the....

They say the heart of rock and roll is still beating
And from what I've seen I believe 'em
Now the old boy may be barely breathing
But the heart of rock and roll, heart of rock and roll is still beating

DC, San Antone and the Liberty Town, Boston and Baton Rouge
Tulsa, Austin, Oklahoma City, Seattle, San Francisco, too
Everywhere there's music, real live music, bands with a million styles
But It's still that some old rock and roll music
that really really drives 'em wild

They say the heart of rock and roll is still beating
And from what I've seen I believe 'em
Now the old boy may be barely breathing
But the heart of rock and roll, heart of rock and roll is still beating

In Cleveland
Detroit!!
Huh, heart of rock and roll





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  1. J.... D....

    Huey Lewis And The News
    The Heart Of Rock & Roll
    Sports
    Chrysalis Records, 1984

  2. D.... M....

    Huey Lewis And The News ... 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

  3. E.... a....

    I just found out today that he isn't saying "the heart of rock and roll is in Cleveland."

  4. L.... C....

    I saw Huey and the boys as an opening act for Michael Jackson on the BAD tour. Now THAT was a concert.

  5. L.... S....

    2020 still ripping

  6. U.... M....

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2lUJpYyDqWGrJyPE014mL5OCOjIqZsx
    Du pur génie! Performance exceptionnelle.Belle chanson. Huey Lewis and the News est un groupe de pop rock américain basé à San Francisco, en Californie. Ils ont eu une série de singles à succès dans les années 80 et au début des années 90, atteignant finalement les 19 meilleurs dix du Billboard Hot 100. Leur album le plus réussi, Sports, est sorti en 1983. L'album, ainsi que ses vidéos présentées sur MTV, catapulté le groupe à une renommée mondiale.

  7. r.... ....

    I LOVE YOU, HUEY!!!!

  8. K.... O....

    Great song!!! Huey rocks. So sad to hear he can’t sing anymore 😔

    K.... O....

    Hey!come in 2020

  9. J.... F....

    Can you hear me now.. How about now..

  10. M.... S....

    Classic

  11. S.... C....

    I worked at a state prison when "Friday Night Videos" were shown. Inmates from every cell block stormed the day room just to watch the little cutie at 3:05.

  12. L.... E....

    That harmonica! 😍

  13. X.... H....

    Marty McFly could probably have played this song to the 1955 teens in Back to the Future without freaking them out, since it has that rockabilly vibe.

  14. M.... T....

    Hey?, uncle Huey how are you guy?

  15. G.... T....

    Huey Lewis big fan

  16. P.... ....

    Anyone notice Huey imitating Bon Scott at 0:51 when he sings "They like it with a lot of style"?

  17. U.... ....

    Who’s here because of the office season5 episode 5

  18. R.... M....

    best sax solo short of david sandborn on tommy bolin's "people people"

  19. R.... H....

    When I was learning English, I thought the lyric was "the heart of rock and roll is *defeated*"...it confused me for the longest time haha...anyway love this song!

  20. W.... W....

    you Western Hemisphere gals/lads just can not comphrend, what this musicianship means to us.

  21. r.... e....

    You're the leader Austin

  22. h.... d....

    Pure gold.

  23. B.... H....

    Huey Lewis and the News are in perfect sync.

  24. R.... B....

    Miss childhood times

  25. J.... J....

    Sweet memories of growing up in the 80’s in Detroit 🙌🏻

  26. F.... S....

    Today its beaten in NY state,2020.

  27. R.... S....

    Wow greg you are so miss.......rip

  28. b.... h....

    listening in 2020. that heartbeat on the beginning was 30 years ago great and still is great. GO ON HUEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  29. P.... C....

    Never, ever gets old.

  30. S.... R....

    It's unbelievable how many hits this band had in just a few years. I doubt there were many artists that could top them in number of hits in the 80s.

  31. A.... C....

    One time I was at a concert, and I yelled out 'throw me your clothes!'. And he made eye contact with me, still singing, and gave me the most disturbed look that I'd ever seen.

  32. J.... J....

    Is that Tommy Lee @ 1:40

  33. G.... K....

    One of the MOST SOULFUL WHITE BOYS ON THE PLANET!! Get better Huey!! Your music is timeless!!

  34. F.... S....

    My wife and I used to love to dance.

  35. F.... S....

    I cant show my hands but I got it turned up and im hearing it in 2019 and forever.

  36. C.... ....

    Best ending of any music video

  37. e.... ....

    Somewhere out in 2019, there's a woman named Debbie from accounting who, at a 1987 Christmas party got drunk and sucked so many cocks she was later to be named deep throat. She became the toast of the 45th floor and now resides is sucatacock New Jersey!! Thank you huey!! Best 8 seconds of her life!!

  38. L.... S....

    0:57 me when I hear some nowaday songs that suck XD

    Who can agree?

  39. F.... T....

    "Now the old boy may be barely breathing": that's what Huey Lewis was saying about rock 'n roll back in the 80s. Today, Rock is no longer breathing. It's dead. Period.

  40. M.... M....

    I read on Wikipedia that John Bush from Anthrax was in this video as a Cameo anyone else notice?

  41. G.... d....

    Yeah baby!! Real rock.

  42. n.... ....

    Mono sound,shit!

  43. Y.... B....

    "Sadness covers me like a blanket, tuck me in let me die. I realize that I'm never going to get to hear a Huey Lewis song for the first time again" - Kahn Souphanousinphone

  44. S.... E....

    That was alot of smoke coming out of that Rolls Royce, it was either hairspray or alot of wacky tabacy. LoL 😁

  45. S.... E....

    The Heart of Rock n Roll these days is on life support. LoL 😁

  46. g.... ....

    1985 is back, let's dance with all our heart and soul

  47. F.... S....

    740 people couldn't feel the heart of Rock and Roll

  48. J.... J....

    this video left out NASHVILLE TN

  49. F.... ....

    im down for some 80's just a rerun for me i was in jr high when huey came thru this tour

  50. J.... F....

    A-Team boi!!!!!

  51. C.... B....

    I just want to dance now!!

  52. p.... ....

    This song is so cheesy it could only come from the 80s

  53. P.... L....

    Huey Lewis and the News used to be with Chrysalis Records. But Chrysalis Records, went out of business.

  54. P.... L....

    This song was from 1983.

  55. P.... L....

    I remember this video, when it was on MTV. Times had changed now.

  56. Z.... E....

    43ART 0F R0CK & R077 is still good!

  57. S.... E....

    Okay bye now you know, that I know how to do this this is a great song and you will enjoy and scratch your head

  58. J.... T....

    There's a lot of garbage out there but the heart of rock and roll is still beating!

  59. d.... d....

    Someone tell huey and the news im about ready to beat his ass.. just cause

  60. P.... M....

    Anyone like him when he had the Stone Ponys?

  61. A.... A....

    Michael gave me a list of his top ten Springsteen songs. Three of them were Huey Lewis and the news, one was Tracy Chapman Fast Car, and my personal favorite, Short People.

  62. M.... H....

    D
    I
    S
    N
    E
    Y

  63. J.... G....

    I just now noticed something. Huey ripped off ET at the end of this.

  64. a.... ....

    i miss the america of yesteryear

  65. n.... s....

    Don't get videos or tunes like this anymore

  66. k.... v....

    my dad had this on vinyl. I thought it was tough

  67. c.... t....

    94.7 KMET logo at Gazzarris.

  68. R.... ....

    there reactions on the genre is like when Marty Mcfly played his guitar back in the day when he went back in time to his parents school.. but the complete opposite and not open minded (they didn’t know what to think) unlike the video... that stage tho looks like the one in the movie.. or that was the decoration then.. what if they made a movie kinda like foot loose but it was about rock and roll acceptance?

    R.... ....

    And the teacher that told Marty he was "just too loud" was Huey Lewis himself.

  69. G.... G....

    Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste, but when "Sports" came out in '83, I think they really came into their own; commercially and artistically.

  70. C.... P....

    yeah baby!!!!!

  71. S.... T....

    Still the hottest guy on earth xo

  72. M.... Q....

    just got an ad for old town road...

  73. L.... ....

    YES! I'm listening all over again and LOVING what I'm hearing. God! I'd forgotten just how much fun I had the last time and I think I'm having it all over again. Those estate agents! Bloody hell! I LIKE Holland and had never been before but I shall definitely be coming back. For good this next time!!!!

    L.... ....

    try their new song which has just come out

  74. �.... ....

    LOVE(ヒューイ・ルイス&ザ・ニュース)

  75. o.... ....

    I always had a thing for the girl at 3:05

  76. P.... a....

    sax solos were very popular then,harden my heart,urgent and many others had a sax solo..

  77. M.... D....

    Until you get to 2019 and the heart of R&R barely has a pulse.

    M.... D....

    yes, I just got an ad for old town road before this.......

  78. S.... K....

    I just realized the guitar chord played right after he sings the "New York" line was supposed to imitate a car horn. I'm dead! 💀💀😂😂💀💀

  79. A.... B....

    h l ant was important in the 80;s...sold millions of albums this was my fav song,,,they did clean, simple rock...love them

  80. A.... L....

    FX Murder By Illusion (1986 - amazing movie!) brings me here...

  81. H.... ....

    Do you like Huey Lewis And The News ?

  82. Y.... n....

    The heart of Rock & Roll is in Cleveland 😁

  83. P.... ....

    The BEST Rock and Roll, 2019

    P.... ....

    are they still exist?

  84. P.... ....

    Someone remaster or cover this, man. Hot song, though.

  85. T.... K....

    4:12-4:23 CREEPY!

  86. B.... ....

    5150 Show brought me here. Corey Holcomb

  87. C.... C....

    Movie idea: Biopic of Huey Lewis and the News with Bryan Cranston playing Huey.

  88. E.... G....

    Is there a catchier intro than this one?
    (It's a rhetorical question, there isn't)

  89. g.... b....

    Gran canción la cual aparece y suena muy bien en la pelicula de 1986 " F/X" mas conocida como Efectos Especiales, la esencia de los 80s plasmado en esta joya: Accion, suspenso, drama, persecuccion, intriga y lo mejor las canciones esta y "Imagination-Just An Illusion " al final de la pelicula...el cine de hoy en dia no le llega a los tobillos a la magia de los 80s, claro hay excepciones

  90. M.... w....

    B e a t e n...so sexy Huey

  91. t.... d....

    Huey Lewis always reminds me of back to the future...golden times the 80s the best

    t.... d....

    I 100% agree you never getting tired with Bands from the 80s

  92. d.... ....

    I love HL a t N. For an official VEVO channel though, this sounds like an old decaying cassette tape.

  93. J.... L....

    Every city named in this video, I have been to.

  94. L.... ....

    Dear Kids in America you need to learn your geography? This would help you!

    New York (NY),
    [LA (Los Ángeles) Hollywood, Sunset Strip] (CA)
    DC (Washington DC) San Antone [San Antonio](TX), Liberty Town (MD), Boston (MA), Baton Rouge (LA Louisiana)
    Tulsa (OK) Austin (TX) Oklahoma City (OK)
    Seattle (WA) San Francisco (CA)
    Cleveland (OH) DETROIT! (MI)

    That’s how I learnt my geography as a kid too :)

  95. B.... A....

    No No No it's San Francisco......