How Huey Lewis Almost Said ‘No!’ To Back to The Future [Video]

With Wednesday being the day Marty McFly arrives in the future in Back To The Future II, here's a story about how Huey Lewis almost walked away from the future of the giant pay day he received from the movie soundtrack.

The iconic 80’s singer was approached by director Robert Zemeckis to write and perform a song for a movie they were cooking up.

As Lewis tells USA Today, "I had a meeting with Bob Gale (writer of the Back To The Future trilogy) and Steven Spielberg, and Zemeckis says, 'We’ve just written this movie and the lead character Marty McFly's favorite band would be Huey Lewis and the News. Would you write a song for the film?' And I said, 'I’m flattered, but I don’t know how to write for film.' Plus, I didn’t fancy writing a song called ‘Back to the Future’."

Luckily, that wasn’t the last conversation on the matter.  The award winning director challenged Lewis to come up with whatever song he wanted and they would make it work.

He did. And they did.  The band wrote “Power of Love” after not having read the script or seen the film. To Huey Lewis’ shock, it fit the movie perfectly and the rest is history.