True to their bar-band roots, Huey Lewis and the News toured regularly until 2018, when they were forced to cancel their tour due to Lewis's poor hearing, reports NPR. Lewis now lives with Meniere's disease, which can lead to sound distortion and hearing loss and makes live performance incredibly difficult. Despite the challenges, the band released an album of new material in 2020, while acknowledging that it may be their last.
Fear not for Huey, though. Not only does he appear to have handled his wealth responsibly, but he was also the credited songwriter for many of the group's biggest hits, which means he still makes money off streaming, album sales, and licensing. Pair that with a reported 30 million albums sold (per Deadline) and Lewis is doing just fine.
In 2020, Celebrity Net Worth estimated that Lewis is worth around $25 million. These days, you might find him at his California home or, more likely, fly fishing somewhere on his sprawling, 500-acre Montana ranch. Not a bad life at all. And, as Lewis told Creative Independent, "Even if I never sing again, things could always be worse. After all, I'm deaf, not dead."
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