The Eighties hitmaker on his first album in a decade and the hearing loss that could end his career
The doctor explained to him that the hearing was unlikely to return but that great artists like Brian Wilson got by just fine with hearing in only one ear, since the body has a remarkable way of adjusting. Lewis was ultimately diagnosed with Meniere’s disease.
Nothing worked, and he was forced to cancel all his future tour dates. Singing had been at the center of Lewis’ life since he was a teenager and despair quickly set in. “I was suicidal,” he says. “There was literally a roaring tinnitus in my head. I just laid in bed. There was nothing I could do. I’d just lay in bed and contemplate my demise.”“It turns out you can get used to almost anything,” he says.
. New music hadn’t been a priority for him in quite a while. His most recent Top 40 hit was 1991’s “It Hit Me Like a Hammer,” and he had more than enough classics to fill out a set list, but he still felt like it was time to try again. Lead-off single “Her Love Is Killin’ Me” was written by Lewis and former News guitarist Chris Hayes about 25 years ago. “It just didn’t work for some reason,” he says. “We tired it onstage in all sorts of different arrangements and it never worked. Two years ago, [rhythm guitarist and saxophonist] Johnny [Colla] had an idea for a horn chart and we re-worked it and it happened. Sometimes it takes the simplest things to get a song right.
Lewis now finds himself in the unusual position of having a new record that he can’t tour to support. But he’s filming a documentary about his life and trying to bring his musicalto Broadway. It’s the fictional story of a struggling rock singer who gives up on his dreams of stardom to work in a cardboard-box factory, where he falls in love with his boss’ daughter.
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