Paul Simon Says He Has Lost Most of the Hearing in One Ear

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon has revealed that he’s misplaced most of the listening to in his left ear.

In an interview with The Times, the famed rocker confessed that the ailment got here on “quite suddenly.”

“Nobody has an explanation for it,” Simon defined. “So everything became more difficult. My reaction to that was frustration and annoyance; not quite anger yet, because I thought it would pass, it would repair itself.”

That hasn’t occurred, and Simon – who retired from touring in 2018, however has often carried out one-off exhibits – admitted that the persevering with listening to difficulty would possible rule out concert events of any sort.

On the subject of performing, Simon additional revealed that he’d developed a love-hate relationship together with his music.

“The songs of mine that I don’t want to sing live, I don’t sing them,” he defined. “Sometimes there are songs that I like and then at a certain point in a tour, I’ll say, ‘What the fuck are you doing, Paul?’ Quite often that would come during ‘You Can Call Me Al.’ I’d think, ‘What are you doing? You’re like a Paul Simon cover band. You should get off the road, go home.’”

Simon lately launched Seven Psalms, the fifteenth solo album of his spectacular profession. Unlike his earlier, radio-ready materials, the new LP is extra of a conceptual piece, providing meditations on religion, spirituality and mortality. These subjects additionally come to the forefront when Simon, now 81, thinks about his personal well being issues.

“Boy, have I been beaten up in these last couple of years,” the singer admitted, noting a vicious bout of COVID on prime of the aforementioned listening to loss. Asked about the deaths of Gordon Lightfoot and Jeff Beck, Simon was much more forthcoming: “My generation’s time is up.”