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Co-founder Otis Williams traces six decades of the soul institution: “I can still pull a few moves!”

BY THE TIME Huey Lewis and the News began working on their fourth studio album, 1986’s Fore!, the group had seen their third album, 1983’s Sports, top the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and earn them four U

Louisiana soul man ROBERT FINLEY overcame his hardscrabble origins, loss and blindness to finally find success in his later life. Amazingly, he believes he still has much to prove. “Most people retire at 65,” he tells Kevin EG Perry. “Hell, I came alive at 65.”

They emerged from a Virginia university in 1973 with great acclaim, but Happy The Man never reached the heights of their UK and European counterparts and disintegrated six years later. Thanks to a very generous friend, their self-titled debut and its follow-up, Crafty Hands , have been revamped and reissued to sound exactly as the band intended them to all those years ago. Co-founders Stanley Whitaker and Rick Kennell tell Prog about their unexpected journey.

 nce upon a long ago, records of other people’s songs were commonplace as many acts relied on the songwriting services offered by publishing offices such as Tin Pan Alley – even chart heavyweights li