I Want a New Drug theme song of the 1984 film "Ghostbusters" was released, Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for copyright infringement, claiming that Parker had stolen the melody from "I Want a New Drug". Lewis had been approached to compose the main theme song for the film, but had to decline because of his work on the soundtrack for "Back to the Future". The two parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Columbia Pictures paid Lewis a settlement) were confidential until 2001, when Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's "Behind the Music". Parker subsequently sued
Huey Lewis and the News "Sports" album, which had just been released at the time, and didn't have time to write a main theme for a movie. The filmmakers gave film footage – with the Huey Lewis song in the background – to Ray Parker Jr., to aid Parker in writing the theme song. The band is mentioned numerous times in Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel, "American Psycho", and the subsequent film. The chapter in the novel is entitled "Huey Lewis & the News," and consists of an extended essay about the band's recorded output and career. During the scene in the film where the