, Lewis was born and raised in London’s East End, and became enamored with music after hearing the Beatles on the radio as a nine-year-old. While in school, Lewis linked up with drummer Alan Jackman, and several years later they put an ad in a London music paper searching for a guitarist and met John Spinks.
The trio’s first band was a prog outfit called Syrius B, but they didn’t last long, especially after punk took hold in the mid-to-late Seventies. After several years of gigging around separately, Lewis, Spinks and Jackman reunited, this time dubbing themselves the Baseball Boys . They recorded a few demos, toured regularly and by 1984 they’d scored a record deal and changed their name to the Outfield.
The Outfield’s first single, “Say It Isn’t So,” was a solid rock hit in the U.S., but their follow-up, “Your Love,” was a Top 10 smash, peaking at Number Six on the, to Number Nine, while the band scored additional radio hits with “All the Love and “Everytime You Cry.” Though the Outfield never produced another song as big as “Your Love,” they were a reliable staple on rock radio throughout the rest of the decade with songs like “Since You’ve Been Gone,” “Voices of Babylon” and “For You.” While Jackman left the band after 1989’s, Lewis and Spinks continued to release albums on a fairly regular basis through the Nineties and early 2000s.
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