{"id":31997,"date":"2026-08-01T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31997"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:49:17","slug":"huey-lewis-says-music-is-no-longer-part-of-his-life-after-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31997","title":{"rendered":"Huey Lewis Says Music Is No Longer Part of His Life After Health Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ad_ph\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"232\">Music legend <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Huey Lewis<\/span><\/span> is opening up about life after being diagnosed with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease, a condition that caused severe hearing loss and changed his career forever.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"480\">The 76-year-old singer, known for hits with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Huey Lewis and the News<\/span><\/span> and songs featured in movies like <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Back to the Future<\/span><\/span>, revealed that he is now \u201cbasically deaf\u201d and can no longer enjoy music the way he once did.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"617\">Although hearing aids and a cochlear implant help him understand people, music sounds distorted because he cannot hear pitch correctly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"774\">Lewis says he misses performing, but he has found peace through fishing, spending time outdoors and appreciating a new chapter of life away from the stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-aBQcgqJPw?si=I0Bdr3rWeYOvnBEV\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend Huey Lewis is opening up about life after being diagnosed with M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease, a condition that caused severe hearing loss and changed his career forever. The 76-year-old singer, known for hits with Huey Lewis and the News and songs featured in movies like Back to the Future, revealed that he is now \u201cbasically&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31997\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Huey Lewis Says Music Is No Longer Part of His Life After Health Struggles&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31999,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31997\/revisions\/31999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}