The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)
| "The Power of Love" | ||||||||||
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| Single by Huey Lewis and the News | ||||||||||
| from the album Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack and Fore! (European and Japanese edition) | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Bad Is Bad" | |||||||||
| Released | June 1985 | |||||||||
| Format | 7-inch, 12-inch | |||||||||
| Recorded | May 30, 1985 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop rock, hard rock, blue-eyed soul | |||||||||
| Length | 3:53 | |||||||||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes, Johnny Colla | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Huey Lewis and the News | |||||||||
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"The Power of Love", also called "Power of Love", is a 1985 single by Huey Lewis and the News, written for and featured in the 1985 blockbuster film Back to the Future. It gave the band their first number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, their second number-one hit on the U.S. Top Rock Tracks chart, and was a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart, where it appeared on UK editions of the band's fourth studio album, Fore!. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 58th Academy Awards, but lost to Lionel Richie's "Say You, Say Me".
The song appears early in Back to the Future as Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) skateboards to school. Later in the film, McFly and his band play a hard rock version of the song for a Battle of the Bands audition (at which a character played by Huey Lewis himself is judging, and tells Marty's group that they are "just too darn loud"), and later when Marty returns to his neighborhood. In the sequel, Back to the Future Part II, the 2015 version of Marty attempts to play the song on his guitar just after being fired, but ends up playing it very poorly due to his damaged hand from his 1985 accident with a Rolls-Royce. Finally, it can be briefly heard playing in the car where Needles and his buddies are driving when Needles challenges Marty to the fate-determining car race near the end of Back to the Future Part III.
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