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"Roads?" Where we're goin' we don't need roads..."

Soundtrack of my Life

Absolute best travellin' music (even if you are not driving a Delorean, or its more likely current cousin, a Tesla). And last year provided the roadtrip opportunity for full album playback. Certain mountainous areas preclude the use of car radio during a long drive straight down the center of California, Oregon and Washington states. There's no better intergenerational music than the defining music from Back to the Future. Both score and soundtrack are excellent, plus Huey Lewis, lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News makes a megaphone-weilding cameo in the audition scene for Marty McFly's Band, The Pinheads




The Power of Love is pure, and from memory rather than recent past experience, I can connect how the sound of Huey Lewis and the News so neatly paralleled the "totally Eighties" Michael J. Fox "fish out of water" performance, while using trumpets and other Big Band style to illuminate a time just outlying some of our collective memories (as the 1950's was already the time of many folks' grandparents). At least in 1985, I know that was true for me. I'd actually already lost my Grandpa Bob. If he'd lived until a time after I had my driver's license, I'm sure he would have taken a drive with me. This song could have been a easy share between me and him, just as I count on it to be a connector for my husband and I with our kids in the car. Good times.


Huey Lewis and the News (songwriters: Huey Lewis / Chris Hayes / John Colla) "The Power of Love" (1985)