Huey Lewis just turned 76 on Sunday and in a recent interview he shared a little more detail on how Ménière’s disease has ruined music for him. As we’d heard before, he’s been living with this for years.
In a new interview on the “Inside of You” podcast, Huey said, quote, “At a certain point, you gotta face the music . . . I can’t hear music. Music is not part of my life anymore, which is a hard pill to swallow.
“I can’t find pitch in the music. The technology that I use on my cochlear implant, it breaks everything down into digital bits.
“The cochlear, which is my only reliable form of hearing, distorts the music a little bit, in the same way it distorts people’s voices. It makes pitch impossible to hear. I can hear conversation. But if I pull these things out, I’m deaf.”
(Huey added that his implant makes people sound like they took a hit of helium. And the interviewer’s voice sounded like Mickey Mouse to him.) (People)
(PROFANITY WARNING: There’s an S-word right away in the video.)