Editing Fore!

{{About|the album by Huey Lewis and the News||Fore (disambiguation){{!}}Fore}}
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{{Infobox album
| name       = Fore!
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Huey Lewis and the News]]
| cover      = Fore! Huey Lewis.png
| alt        =
| released   = August 20, 1986
| recorded   = 1985–1986
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Studio D Recording]] and [[Record Plant|The Plant]], [[Sausalito, California]]; [[Fantasy Studios]], [[Berkeley, California]].
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Rock music|Rock]]|[[pop rock]]}}
| length     = 37:53
| label      = [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]]
| producer   = [[Huey Lewis and the News]]
| prev_title = [[Sports (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Sports]]
| prev_year  = 1983
| next_title = [[Small World (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Small World]]
| next_year  = 1988
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Fore!
 | type        = Studio
 | single1     = [[Stuck with You]]
 | single1date = July 21, 1986
 | single2     = [[Hip to Be Square]]
 | single2date = October 6, 1986
 | single3     = [[Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Jacob's Ladder]]
 | single3date = January 5, 1987
 | single4     = [[I Know What I Like]]
 | single4date = March 23, 1987
 | single5     = Simple as That
 | single5date = 1987 (UK only)
 | single6     = [[Doing It All for My Baby]]
 | single6date = June 29, 1987
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r11603|pure_url=yes}} Fore! - Review], Allmusic.com</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Record Mirror]]''
| rev2score = 2/5<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Smith|first=Robin|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/86/Record-Mirror-1986-09-13.pdf|title=Albums: Huey Lewis and the News – ''Fore!'' (Chrysalis)|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|date=13 September 1986|page=18|location=London|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|access-date=8 January 2024|via=World Radio History|issn=0144-5804|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623143615/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/86/Record-Mirror-1986-09-13.pdf|archive-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3score = (favorable)<ref>Rob Hoeburger,  [https://web.archive.org/web/20080220061744/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hueylewisandthenews/albums/album/196652/review/5942216/fore Huey Lewis and the News: Fore! : Music Reviews], Rollingstone.com, October 9, 1986</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Huey Lewis and the News|last=Evans|first=Paul|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/482 482]}}</ref>
}}

'''''Fore!''''' is the fourth [[studio album]] by American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Huey Lewis and the News]], released on August 20, 1986. The album was a commercial success, peaking at number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and went on to score five top-ten [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] singles, including the number-one hits "[[Stuck with You]]" and "[[Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Jacob's Ladder]]". The album was [[RIAA certification|certified]] three-times platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]].

== Music and lyrics ==
"[[Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Jacob's Ladder]]" was originally meant for a [[Bruce Hornsby]] album that [[Huey Lewis]] was producing.<ref name=Horns>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831015940/http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com/wp/?page_id=1038|title=Question of the Week|date=August 25, 2013|archive-date=August 31, 2013|url=http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com/wp/?page_id=1038|website=Hueylewisandthenews.com}}</ref> Hornsby did not like the arrangement his band played, and it was given to Lewis.<ref name=Horns />

"[[Doing It All for My Baby]]" was written by Mike Duke and Phil Cody. Duke wrote the song and then recorded vocals himself (the band playing backing parts and instruments), with the intention of getting a record contract for his own solo career.<ref name=Duke>{{cite web |url=http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com/wp/?page_id=1038 |title=Huey Lewis Fan Q&A: March 23, 2014 |access-date=January 5, 2020 |archive-date=March 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329005041/http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com/wp/?page_id=1038 |url-status=dead }}</ref> When that plan fell through, Lewis decided to record a version with his own vocals for the album.<ref name=Duke />

Lewis stated he originally wrote the lyrics for "[[Hip to Be Square]]" in a [[Grammatical person|third person]] perspective, "He used to be a renegade..."<ref name=ew /> He referenced the book ''[[Bobos in Paradise]]'' in describing the song's inspiration, explaining that the song was about the "phenomenon where people from the '60s started to drop back in, cut their hair, work out, that kind of crap, but they kept their bohemian tastes. ... bourgeois bohemians." Lewis later modified the lyrics to be in the first person as he believed it would enhance the joke, but stated this had unintentionally led to the interpretation of the song as an "anthem for square people".<ref name=ew>{{cite magazine|url =https://ew.com/article/2008/08/04/huey-lewis-the/|title =Name That Movie Mondays! (Vol. 7: Special Huey Lewis & the News edition)|first =Mandi|last =Blerly|magazine =Entertainment Weekly|date =August 4, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Graff |first1=Gary |title=How Huey Lewis Overcame Commercial 'Pressure' for Massive 'Fore!' |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/huey-lewis-and-the-news-fore/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=September 22, 2021 |access-date=3 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

According to Lewis, the album track "Forest for the Trees" was written for and about kids struggling with life issues as an uplifting message for them.<ref name=Trees>{{cite web|url=http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com/wp/?page_id=1038 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103194805/http://www.hueylewisandthenews.com/wp/?page_id=1038 |archive-date=November 3, 2019 |url-status=dead |title=Huey Lewis Fan Q&A: June 17, 2019|access-date=August 30, 2021}}</ref> Lewis based it off the letters he received from young fans at the time who would talk about how important his music was to them.<ref name=Trees />

"[[The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)|The Power of Love]]", originally from the [[Back to the Future (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] of the 1985 film ''[[Back to the Future]]'', is included as a bonus track on international editions of the album. The song was the band's first chart-topper on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The critical reception of the album was mixed with Glenn O'Brien in [[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] noting that 'what saves it for me is that songs are good songs. And Huey still sings with heart and soul'.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Brien |first=Glenn |date=December 1986 |title=Fore! review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FL-rqqrDxb8C&pg=PA36 |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|SPIN]] |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=36–7 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Album cover==
The wall that Lewis and the members of the band stand against on the album's cover is a wall from [[Tamalpais High School]] in [[Mill Valley, California]]. Band members Bill Gibson, Sean Hopper and Mario Cipollina went to this school together.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

== In popular culture ==
The album is referenced in the film ''[[American Psycho (film)|American Psycho]].'' The main character [[Patrick Bateman]], while talking to one of his potential victims, gives a review of the album, discussing the band's viewpoint, intent, and how specifically the song "Hip to Be Square" espouses "the pleasures of conformity" but with a catchy 1980s beat, going on to state it is "the group's most accomplished album".

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| headline      = Side one
| title1        = [[Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)|Jacob's Ladder]]
| writer1       = {{hlist|[[Bruce Hornsby]]|[[John Hornsby]]}}
| length1       = 3:33
| title2        = [[Stuck with You]]
| writer2       = {{hlist|Chris Hayes|[[Huey Lewis]]}}
| length2       = 4:29
| title3        = Whole Lotta Lovin{{'-}}
| writer3       = {{hlist|[[Johnny Colla]]|Lewis}}
| length3       = 3:30
| title4        = [[Doing It All for My Baby]]
| writer4       = {{hlist|Phil Cody|Mike Duke}}
| length4       = 3:39
| title5        = [[Hip to Be Square]]
| writer5       = {{hlist|Bill Gibson|Sean Hopper|Lewis}}
| length5       = 4:05
}}
{{Track listing
| headline      = Side two
| total_length  = 37:53
| title1        = [[I Know What I Like]]
| writer1       = {{hlist|Hayes|Lewis}}
| length1       = 3:59
| title2        = I Never Walk Alone
| writer2       = [[Nielsen Pearson|Reed Nielsen]]
| length2       = 3:44
| title3        = Forest for the Trees
| writer3       = {{hlist|Jerome Fletcher|Gibson|Lewis|[[Kenny Loggins]]}}
| length3       = 3:28
| title4        = Naturally
| writer4       = {{hlist|Colla|Lewis}}
| length4       = 2:52
| title5        = Simple as That
| writer5       = {{hlist|[[Stephen "Doc" Kupka]]|[[Emilio Castillo]]|Frank Biner}}
| length5       = 4:27
}}
* The international edition includes "[[The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)|The Power of Love]]" as a bonus track, inserted as track 3 of side 2.

== Personnel ==
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'''Huey Lewis and the News'''
* [[Huey Lewis]] – harmonica, vocals
* [[Johnny Colla]] – guitar, saxophone, backing vocals
* Chris Hayes – guitar, backing vocals
* Mario Cipollina – bass
* Bill Gibson – percussion, drums, backing vocals
* Sean Hopper – keyboard, backing vocals

'''Additional personnel'''
* The [[Tower of Power]] Horns (4, 10):
** [[Greg Adams (musician)|Greg Adams]] – trumpet, horn arrangements
** [[Emilio Castillo]] – tenor saxophone
** [[Richard Elliot]] – tenor saxophone
** [[Stephen Kupka|Stephen "Doc" Kupka]] – baritone saxophone (4, 5, 10), backing vocals (5, 6)
** Lee Thornburg – trumpet
* David Jenkins – backing vocals (1)
* Ralph Arista – backing vocals (5, 6)
* [[Dwight Clark]] – backing vocals (5, 6)
* Mike Duke – backing vocals (5, 6)
* [[Riki Ellison]] – backing vocals (5, 6)
* Jerome Fletcher – backing vocals (5, 6)
* [[Ronnie Lott]] – backing vocals (5, 6)
* [[Joe Montana]] – backing vocals (5, 6)
* Jim Moran – backing vocals (5, 6)
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=== Production ===
* Huey Lewis and the News – producers
* Jim Gaines – engineer
* Robert Missbach – engineer, mixing (1–8, 10)
* Michael Christopher – second engineer
* Phil Kaffel – additional engineer
* Malcolm Pollack – additional engineer, mixing (9)
* Rob Beaton – assistant engineer
* Alex Hass – assistant engineer
* Tom Size – assistant engineer
* Jim "Watts" Vereecke – assistant engineer
* [[Bob Clearmountain]] – mixing on "The Power of Love"
* Mixed at [[Power Station (recording studio)|The Power Station]] (New York, NY).
* [[Bob Ludwig]] – mastering at [[Masterdisk]] (New York, NY).
* Ralph Arista – guitar technician
* Jerry Daniels – keyboard technician
* Terry Persons – production manager
* Anita Wong – production design
* Laura Lamar – graphic design
* Bennett Hall – art direction, illustration, photography
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== Charts ==
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=== Weekly charts ===
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (1986)
!scope="col"|Peak<br /> position
|-
!scope="row"|Australian Albums ([[Australian Albums Chart|Kent Music Report]])<ref name="AUS Albums">{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, NSW|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|title-link=Kent Music Report}}</ref>
| 3
|-
{{album chart|Austria|22|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
|-
!scope="row"|Belgian Albums ([[Ultratop|BEA]])<ref name="Billboard Magazine">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Billboard-Magazine.htm |title=Billboard Magazine|publisher=Billboard |access-date=April 8, 2017}}</ref>
| 16
|-
!scope="row"|Canadian Albums (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref name="Canadian album positions">{{cite web |url = http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=h6banu1fsvdt9pof8c4m7dun24&q1=village+people&q2=Top+Albums%2FCDs&interval=50 |title = RPM: Huey Lewis and the News (albums) |publisher = RPM Magazine |access-date = April 8, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171014084220/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=h6banu1fsvdt9pof8c4m7dun24&q1=village+people&q2=Top+Albums%2FCDs&interval=50 |archive-date = October 14, 2017 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
| 1
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|33|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[European Top 100 Albums]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCQEAAAAMBAJ&q=paul+simon |title=Billboard |website=books.google.com |date=November 15, 1986 |access-date=25 September 2011 |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111155148/https://books.google.com/books?id=UCQEAAAAMBAJ&q=paul+simon |url-status=live }}</ref>
|align="center"|11
|-
!scope="row"|Finnish Albums ([[The Official Finnish Charts|Suomen virallinen lista]])<ref name="FINchart">{{cite book | first= Timo | last= Pennanen | year= 2006 | title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 | edition= 1st | publisher= Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava | location= Helsinki| isbn=  978-951-1-21053-5 | page= 263 | language= fi }}</ref>
| 7
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|5|id=441|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=August 22, 2024}}
|-
!scope="row"|Icelandic Albums ([[Tónlist]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timarit.is/files/32328487.jpg |title=Tonlist Top 40 |publisher=DV |access-date=2017-02-09}}</ref>
|align="center"|7
|-
!scope="row"|Japanese Albums ([[Oricon Albums Chart|Oricon]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/131725/|title=Oricon Archive – Huey Lewis and the News|publisher=Oricon|access-date=April 8, 2017}}</ref>
| 1
|-
{{album chart|New Zealand|1|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
|-
{{album chart|Norway|6|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
|-
!scope="row"|Portuguese Albums ([[Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa|Musica & Som]])<ref name="Billboard Magazine" />
| 12
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|7|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|4|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|album=Fore!|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
|-
!scope="row"|UK Albums ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19860921/7502/|title=Huey Lewis and the News Chart History|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=April 8, 2017}}</ref>
| 8
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|1|artist=Huey Lewis the News|rowheader=true|accessdate=December 3, 2021}}
|-
!scope="row"|Zimbabwean Albums ([[List of record charts|ZIMA]])<ref>* Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. ''Zimbabwe: albums chart book''. Harare: C. Kimberley, 2000</ref>
| 6
|-
|}
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=== Year-end charts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Chart (1986)
!Position
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|[[Canadian Albums Chart]] (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref name="CAYearend86">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8824&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=8gtl9u7trphhliommrvt4kqlb2|title=The RPM Top 100 Albums of 1986|publisher=RPM|access-date=4 February 2012|archive-date=December 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208162708/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.8824&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=8gtl9u7trphhliommrvt4kqlb2|url-status=live}}</ref>
|11
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|[[New Zealand Albums Chart]]<ref name="NZ86">{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/annual-albums/1986-12-31|title=The Top 50 Albums of 1986|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094747/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=3875|url-status=live}}</ref>
|46
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|[[Norwegian Albums Chart]] (Høst Period)<ref name="Norway">{{cite web|url=http://lista.vg.no/liste/topp-40-album/2/dato/1986/periode/høst|title=The Top 20 Albums of Høst 1986|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909234238/http://lista.vg.no/liste/topp-40-album/2/dato/1986/periode/h%C3%B8st|archive-date=9 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|10
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|[[Swiss Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://swisscharts.com/year.asp?key=1986 |title=Swiss Year-End Charts 1986 – swisscharts.com |first=Steffen |last=Hung |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330112427/http://swisscharts.com/year.asp?key=1986 |archive-date=2014-03-30 }}</ref>
|25
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|[[UK Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Top 100 Albums |periodical=Music Week |publisher=Spotlight Publications |location=London, England |page=25 |date=24 January 1987}}</ref>
|29
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Chart (1987)
!Position
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|Canadian Albums Chart (''RPM'')<ref name="CAYearend96">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0918&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=8gtl9u7trphhliommrvt4kqlb2|title=The RPM Top 100 Albums of 1987|publisher=RPM|access-date=4 February 2012|archive-date=December 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208144217/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0918&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=8gtl9u7trphhliommrvt4kqlb2|url-status=live}}</ref>
|36
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|New Zealand Albums Chart<ref name="NZ87">{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/annual-albums/1987-12-31|title=The Top 50 Albums of 1987|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=February 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210184811/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=3876|url-status=live}}</ref>
|48
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|UK Albums Chart<ref>{{cite journal |title=Top 100 Albums |periodical=Music Week |publisher=Spotlight Publications |location=London, England |page=25 |date=24 January 1988}}</ref>
|92
|-
!scope="row" align="left"|US ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1987/top-billboard-200-albums |title=Billboard 200 Albums – Year-end: 1987 |date=January 2, 2013 |publisher=Billboard |access-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308184503/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1987/top-billboard-200-albums |url-status=live }}</ref>
|7
|}
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== Certifications ==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|title=Fore!|access-date=25 July 2012|relyear=1986|award=Platinum|number=5}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=album|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|title=Fore!|access-date=25 July 2012|relyear=1986|award=Gold}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|type=album|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|title=Fore!|relyear=1986|certyear=1987|id=1986-11-28|source=newchart|access-date=2024-11-20|award=Platinum}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|artist=Huey Lewis and the News|title=Fore|award=Platinum|number=2|access-date=25 July 2012|relyear=1986|id=2347-1634-2}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=Huey Lewis & the News|title=Fore!|access-date=25 July 2012|relyear=1986|award=Platinum|number=3}}
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== References ==
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