| Birth Date: | 13 November 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Sacramento, California, USA |
| Genre: | pop |
| Instrument: | Drums |
| Years Active: | 1970s-present |
| Current Member Of: | Huey Lewis and the News, Sons of Champlin |
| Past Member Of: | USA for Africa |
Bill Gibson is an American drummer. Since 1979, he has been the drummer for Huey Lewis and the News. Since the band's hiatus in 2020, he is currently a member of the Sons of Champlin.
Gibson was born in Sacramento to Edward and Phyllis Gibson. Gibson started playing the drums at age twelve.[1] His father, Ed, was an architect, and played drums after finishing work for the day. He was influenced by Art Blakey and Buddy Rich. In 1967, his father took him to the Monterey Jazz Festival. He eventually acquired his first drum kit at fourteen, and as a teenager saw The Beatles twice, and The Dave Clark Five.
Bill joined Huey Lewis and the News as drummer in 1979. The News' sound draws upon early pop, rnb, doo-wop, blue-eyed soul and new wave.[2] [3] [4] They had many top ten hits in the 1980s, including "Do You Believe in Love", "Heart and Soul", "I Want a New Drug", "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "If This Is It", "Hip to Be Square", "I Know What I Like", "Doing It All for My Baby" and "Perfect World".
Gibson was in USA For Africa, and sang in the chorus for the charity single We Are the World. Gibson has toured with HLATN since 1979.
The chapter reads as a review evaluating the qualities in Huey Lewis' albums— some are New Wave... some bring out his quintessential bluesiness— and these shifts in musical style of this bands are as much 'events' in the novel as anything happening in the lives of the characters.