{"id":114207,"date":"2024-11-21T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/11\/21\/paul-simon-discusses-hearing-loss-in-cbs-mornings-interview\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:03:22","slug":"paul-simon-discusses-hearing-loss-in-cbs-mornings-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/11\/21\/paul-simon-discusses-hearing-loss-in-cbs-mornings-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon Discusses Hearing Loss in \u2018CBS Mornings\u2019\u00a0Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tPaul Simon<\/a> might be responsible for writing some of music\u2019s most revered songs, but as he\u2019s revealed previously, he\u2019s progressively becoming unable to hear them.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Simon explained<\/a> to British paper The Times<\/a><\/em> that he began to experience hearing loss in his left ear while recording his 2023 song cycle, Seven Psalms<\/a><\/em>. \u201cQuite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo everything became more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow in a new interview with CBS Mornings<\/a><\/em>, Simon spoke to reporter Anthony Mason about his journey with hearing loss and his search for ways to manage it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was incredibly frustrating. I was very angry at first that this had happened,\u201d Simon admitted, noting his greatest fear is the possibility or no longer writing or composing. \u201cI guess what I\u2019m most apprehensive about would be if I can\u2019t hear well enough to really enjoy the act of making music,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Simon wrapped up his final tour<\/a> in 2018, he\u2019s still making sporadic appearances here and there. Most recently, he performed a surprise set at New York City\u2019s Irish Arts Centre, and weeks prior, he performed for The SoHo Sessions as part of a fundraiser for the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m going through my repertoire and reducing a lot of the choices that I make to acoustic versions. It\u2019s all much quieter,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018You Can Call Me Al.\u2019 That\u2019s gone. I can\u2019t do that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs part of his CBS Mornings<\/em> interview, Simon visited with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss at their Palo Alto, California facilities, discussing how the likes of zebrafish, mice, and other animals are a point of focus for research. While zebrafish have had hearing benefits thanks to a drug which been approved by the FDA, mice are being used as part of gene therapy in an effort to regenerate damaged hair cells.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Simon\u2019s own admission though, he tells CBS that his desire to create hasn\u2019t been affected despite his ability to perfectly hear the fruits of his labor.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou know Matisse, when he was suffering at the end of his life, when he was in bed, he envisioned all these cut-outs and had a great creative period,\u201d he noted. \u201cSo I don\u2019t think creativity stops with disability. So far, I haven\u2019t experienced that. And I hope not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Paul Simon might be responsible for writing some of music\u2019s most revered songs, but as he\u2019s revealed previously, he\u2019s progressively becoming unable to hear them. Last year, Simon explained to British paper The Times that he began to experience hearing loss in his left ear while recording his 2023 song cycle, Seven Psalms. \u201cQuite suddenly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}