The musician continues to make music despite battling hearing loss. His new musical, The Heart of Rock and Roll, is now on Broadway.Musician Huey Lewis has taken his music to Broadway with the new jukebox musical The Heart of Rock and Roll. When Huey Lewis snuck onto a plane to Europe after high school, he knew he wanted to busk around the continent playing his harmonica.
"It's a long story, but the guy I got a ride with, had a little too much to drink and drove the car with his trailer into a pond," Lewis tells Two weeks later, Lewis performed with his harmonica, alongside an Australian guitar player. When they started to play, the whole crowd went silent.But once they finished their song, the crowd went wild.
In 2018, Lewis was diagnosed with Ménière's disease, an inner ear disorder which causes significant hearing loss. He can sing in-tune to himself, but he can't find the pitch in anything that he hears.The Heart of Rock and Roll,The show follows Bobby, a former rocker turned assembly line worker at a cardboard box factory. The songs of Huey Lewis and the News accompany him as he figures out his futures."It's really the centrepiece of our show," Lewis says.