Who was the only artists besides Beethoven who couldn’t hear the music they wrote and played ?

Deaf Leppard

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8 Comments

one_old_coder@piefed.social · 10 pts · 10d (1 reply)

What has 9 arms and sucks? Def Leppard.

johsny@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d

Lol good one.

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 8 pts · 10d (4 replies)

Lead poisoning may have been why Big B was deaf by 45-50 years of age.

snooggums@piefed.world · 6 pts · 10d (2 replies)

It also could have been listening to rock music too loud.

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 2 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Umm, Hmm, would you care to elaborate?

snooggums@piefed.world · 9 pts · 10d

No

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 10d

as a youngster, he was struck repeatedly in the head by his abusive alcoholic father... but yeah, lead too.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d

Def*