Huey Lewis was forced to cancel his slate of 2018 concerts last April after he was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease , an inner-ear disorder. In a new interview with the San Francisco Chronicle , he says he hasn't given up.
The singer first became aware of the problem before a show, when he was in a hotel room with his bandmates and suddenly everything sounded like a blur. "He looked at us and said, ‘I can’t hear a word you guys are saying,’” drummer Bill Gibson told the paper. They played the show that night anyway, but Lewis struggled through it, and the rest of the tour was canceled.
Huey Lewis talked to The Today Show about his diagnosis in 2018: