After Huey Lewis learned that a syndrome of the inner ear called Ménière’s disease had caused him significant hearing loss and left him unable to play or hear music, he faced the difficult task of having to tell his friends and peers. But their conversation proved to be an unexpected source of the pragmatic philosophy that Lewis built his career on. Over a breakfast interview last month, Lewis delivered a lively, solo re-enactment of that fateful talk with Torres. “He goes, ‘Hey, Huey, how ya doing?’” Lewis recalled. I said, ‘I’ve lost my hearing and I can’t hear pitch.

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