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He has hearing loss, but it's not he played heavy metal.

At least we have top men working on it now.

1 posted on 11/20/2024 2:56:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
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He’s just not listening...


2 posted on 11/20/2024 2:59:04 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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5 posted on 11/20/2024 3:07:19 PM PST by xp38
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So, it’s not because his name is actually Paul, and calling him “Al” is just silly.

It’s a shame about his hearing loss.


6 posted on 11/20/2024 3:08:16 PM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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synthetic heroine (oxycotin) causes hearing loss.
Just ask Rush.


8 posted on 11/20/2024 3:08:53 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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They’ve got seeing eye and chewing mouth dogs.
Why can’t they come up with a hearing ear dog?


11 posted on 11/20/2024 3:15:32 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Paul has lost his voice. He can’t sing anymore.


12 posted on 11/20/2024 3:16:22 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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A shame a musician of his caliber to lose any hearing. I have tinnitus, but no lose of hearing in any ear as yet at 74. I can still hear the sizzle of a high-hat (I’m a drummer) and all lower frequencies. Although I’ve been in bands much of my life and currently listen to my CD’s at high volume, my hearing is better than my wife’s who is years younger. Weird.


13 posted on 11/20/2024 3:17:24 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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"Why Paul Simon Won’t Play ‘You Can Call Me Al’ Again"

Because Chevy Chase is a dick?


14 posted on 11/20/2024 3:21:05 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I have tinnitus. I called the tinnitus help hotline to see what they could do, but it just kept ringing.


16 posted on 11/20/2024 3:23:33 PM PST by nagant (PHENOMENON)
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Rush stated that after his first cochlear implant, any new music was just noise. Songs he knew very well sounded just as he remembered them. Something about the mind filling in what the implant did not.


20 posted on 11/20/2024 3:43:32 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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Huey Lewis has significant hearing loss as well, Ménière's disease. From The Messenger:“I know of one guy who was a pilot and he had Meniere’s so he had to quit flying airplanes because he worried about the vertigo mainly,” Lewis shared. “Six years later, his hearing returned, so that would be nice.”

For now, the 73-year-old is finding the positive in his current reality. Although he can’t sing, perform or listen to music, his hearing aids allow him to have conversations without any problems.

(Huey's a heckuva golfer, by the way. I'm sure turning down the noise helps with distractions once in awhile).

22 posted on 11/20/2024 3:44:37 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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Because it reminds him of Chevy Chase?


24 posted on 11/20/2024 3:51:57 PM PST by The Unknown Republican
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Beethoven wrote some of the most incredible music ever created by humanity when he was stone cold deaf.


25 posted on 11/20/2024 3:52:12 PM PST by GaltMeister (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
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Chevy Chase blowing a trumpet in Paul’s ear probably didn’t help.


26 posted on 11/20/2024 3:53:25 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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In any large venue for most styles of music the stage levels can be loud. Between the instruments, individual monitors and main power amps the decibel level can hit easily damaging levels. Elvis was suffering hearing loss from stage levels.


27 posted on 11/20/2024 3:53:56 PM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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The antagonist of Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio” is a child who discovers his homosexuality with an older friend “down at the schoolyard.” Mickey Mantle, seen in the video, didn’t get it. But the kid befriends a “radical preacher” who was “on the cover of Newsweek,” evidently referencing the Boston Catholic priest associated with NAMBLA whose support from the media kept him from being removed from the ministry despite widespread indications he was regularly having sex with runaway boys.

Not OK, Paul.


29 posted on 11/20/2024 4:18:26 PM PST by dangus
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He should retire, at least as a performer, he can’t sing anymore.


31 posted on 11/20/2024 4:45:50 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Hey, Beethoven was totally deaf, and he didn’t stop composing.


36 posted on 11/20/2024 6:04:51 PM PST by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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He simply got tired of fans requesting his song about Artificial Intelligence …


38 posted on 11/20/2024 6:24:11 PM PST by mikrofon (2025 = 45^2 … DJT to the 2nd Power)
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In one, scientists were able to restore hearing for zebrafish that had previously been deaf.

Okay, I'll ask. I would they know?

39 posted on 11/20/2024 6:34:15 PM PST by FreeReign
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