The Power of Love (Huey Lewis & The News song)

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“The Power of Love”
Single by Huey Lewis & the News from the album Back to the Future: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Released	1985
Format	7-Inch
Genre	Rock
Length	3:59
Label	Chrysalis Records
Writer(s)	Chris Hayes Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis & the News singles chronology
"Walking On A Thin Line" (1984) "The Power of Love" (1985) "Stuck with You" (1986) Alternate cover French 7-inch single cover.

"The Power of Love" is the title of a 1985 single by Huey Lewis & the News written for and featured in the film Back to the Future. It gave the band their first number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and later peaked at #9 in the UK, while appearing on UK editions of the band's fourth studio album, Fore!. The song was nominated for an Academy Award at the 58th Academy Awards.

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The song appears early in Back to the Future as Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) skates to school, then when he and his band played the song for a Battle of the Bands auditions (which Lewis, himself, is judging), and later when Marty returns to his neighborhood. In the sequel, Back to the Future Part II, the 2015 version of Marty barely plays the song on his guitar just after being fired, but because his hand was damaged from his 1985 accident with a Rolls Royce, he cannot play the guitar well. It is hard to tell that he is playing "Power of Love." 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.

The music video, featured in the bonus features of the Back to the Future Part II disc, shows the band playing in a nightclub, with Dr. Emmett Brown showing up in the DeLorean, apparently after time-travelling, and a couple stealing it for a joy ride.

The track has recently been covered by UK guitar indie band The Pigeon Detectives. The cover has been included on the BBC Radio One compilation CD Radio 1 Established 1967. It was also covered by Drive-Through Records band The Early November on the 2005 compilation, Punk Goes 80's.

The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after an '80s hit song, named an episode after this song.

[edit] Chart performance

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