For Huey Lewis, one of the hardest parts of living with Ménière’s disease isn’t the hearing loss itself, it’s losing music.
The 76-year-old rock star says he’s now “basically deaf” and can no longer enjoy what once defined his life and career.
“I can’t hear music. Music is not part of my life anymore, which is a hard pill to swallow,” Lewis told Michael Rosenbaum on the July 7 episode of the “Inside of You” podcast.
Lewis, who revealed in 2021 that he’d been diagnosed with an inner ear condition after years of debilitating vertigo attacks, said he hasn’t been able to hear properly for more than eight years. While a cochlear implant and hearing aid help him understand speech, he said they distort musical pitch, making it nearly impossible to enjoy music.