{"id":4278,"date":"2026-07-12T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:36:44","slug":"music-is-not-part-of-my-life-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"Music Is Not Part of My Life Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/huey-lewis-basically-deaf-music-not-part-of-life.jpg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1610883\" data-title=\"Huey Lewis Says \u201cMusic Is Not Part of My Life Anymore\u201d After Going Deaf\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/huey-lewis-hearing-loss-menieres-disease-basically-deaf\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/huey-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huey Lewis<\/a> confirmed during a recent podcast appearance that he has been \u201cbasically deaf\u201d for nearly nine years after living with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2020\/01\/huey-lewis-menieres-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease<\/a> for several decades. On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_OrSi0VVVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum<\/em><\/a>, the artist explained this \u201cimmeasurable\u201d change is why \u201cmusic is not part of my life anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, the 76-year-old artist said he first lost hearing in his right ear 35 years ago, after which he \u201cexisted on one ear.\u201d My dad was a doctor, and he sent me to this famous ENT guy [who] said, \u2018Well, get used to it.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4y6oQCy\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy <em>Sports<\/em> 40th Anniversary Reissue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the ENT reassured Lewis that Jimi Hendrix and Brian Wilson both \u201chad one ear,\u201d he was able to adjust and play for the next 25 years, until his left ear \u201cbailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m basically deaf,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cI have a cochlear implant on this side, and I have a regular old hearing aid in the other one. They\u2019re compatible, and they stream to the computer, and they stream to the phone, but I\u2019m basically deaf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>After initially trying everything from herbal medicines to Western medicine and fasting to a no-meat, no-salt diet, the condition kept getting worse, and Lewis had to \u201cface the music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s [been] eight years, eight-and-a-half years or so,\u201d he added. \u201cMy life has changed immeasurably, and music is not part of my life anymore, which is a hard pill to swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is because Lewis\u2019 cochlear implant \u201cbreaks everything down into digital bits,\u201d making speech easier to understand than music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic occurs in all frequencies with harmonics [and] overtones,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt comes at you in a lot of different frequencies, and so it distorts for me, and the cochlear, which is my only reliable form of hearing, distorts the music a little bit in the same way it distorts people\u2019s voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cPeople sound like they took a hit of helium and then kind of talk like that. Everybody has a little bit of that. So, it colors the pitch. It makes pitch impossible to hear, but I can hear conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So while a return to music seems impossible, there is some hope for a more comfortable life in the form of a fully internal cochlear implant, which lives inside one\u2019s skin. \u201cYou put a little thing on your ear to charge it every once in a while, and then you take it out, and now you can swim, and you can sleep at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease is an inner ear disorder that can result in vertigo, tinnitus, and ear pressure. Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2018\/04\/huey-lewis-cancel-all-future-tour-dates-due-to-hearing-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his diagnosis<\/a> with the disease in April 2018 after losing most of his hearing during a concert in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on <em>CBS Sunday Morning<\/em> in 2020, Lewis said that M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease had left him unable to sing and perform. The following year, Lewis told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/entertainment\/music\/huey-lewis-hearing-loss-weather-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AARP<\/a> he had been having vertigo attacks for 35 years and that his original diagnosis for M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease was 25 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Huey Lewis\u2019 final studio album with the News, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2019\/12\/huey-lewis-the-news-announce-new-album-weather-share-while-were-young-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Weather<\/em><\/a>, was released in 2020. Be sure to revisit his 2024 appearance on the podcast\u00a0<em>The Story Behind the Song<\/em>, in which he broke down \u201cI Want a New Drug\u201d off<em>\u00a0Sports<\/em>, which received a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4y6oQCy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">40th anniversary reissue<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HUEY LEWIS: Losing Music to Deafness, Back to the Future Magic &amp; Fishing for a New Life\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l_OrSi0VVVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huey Lewis confirmed during a recent podcast appearance that he has been \u201cbasically deaf\u201d for nearly nine years after living with\u00a0M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease for several decades. 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