Gary Moore (who was 16 at the time) stood in for Lewis for a few weeks while the latter was in hospital, and subsequently joined Skid Row.

Lewis wrote all the songs on the Andwella albums with the exception of the "World's End Theme Part 1", which was written and arranged by Bobby Scott.

[8] The Dreams album was recorded at Miami's Criteria Recording and represented a musical adventure incorporating American Southern Rock and Soul into Lewis' compositional style, with his band being augmented by American musicians Steve and Jamie Brantley, Bruce Dees, and Andy McMahon.

Just prior to this time Lewis had formed the Dave Lewis Band, first with the line up of Felix Krish (bass), Dave Rose (keyboards) and Preston Heyman (drums); the line-up later changed to Rob Townsend (drums), Charlie McCracken (bass) and Derek Beauchemin (keyboards).

In recent years, Lewis has performed at venues all over the world including Ireland, Spain, the Caribbean and Japan, where he has a long-standing fan base dating back to his days with Andwella.

It was a favourite of American DJ David Mancuso at his "by invitation only" parties in the early days of The Loft (New York City).

Lewis, who was unaware of the songs popularity in the 1970s New York club scene at the time, was recently interviewed by one of Mansuco's friends and collaborators, DJ Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy on her radio show, who told him it had been a firm favourite in the early days of The Loft parties, as confirmed by an article in The New York Times in 2020 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Loft party, 'Love Saves The Day'.

[13] Lewis continues to write songs[14] and can often be seen performing live at the piano in the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London.