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Bilinda Butcher - The My Bloody Valentine vocalist told Rolling Stone "I had a punctured ear drum..."

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Bilinda Butcher - "...for a while I couldn't hear out of one ear and it was very depressing."

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Brian Johnson - The AC/DC front man told the Daily Mail, "I’ve got hearing loss in me left ear. I didn’t get it from music, I got it from sitting in a race car too long without ear plugs."

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Music - "I heard my ear drum burst, because I forgot to put me plugs in under my helmet. That’s how it happened. Music had nothing to do with it."

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Chris Martin - "Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don’t think about until there’s a problem."

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Ten Years - As reported in the Daily Mail, the Coldplay front man said, "I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worse – touch wood. But I wish I’d thought about it earlier."

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Eric Clapton - Turning up the volume loud on his guitar has resulted in partial deafness for the former Cream band member.

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Tinnitus - In a BBC Radio 2 interview Clapton said, “I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus..."

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George Martin - The legendary producer became increasingly deaf from spending nearly half his life sitting in front of very loud studio speakers.

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George Martin - Sir George Martin suffered from progressive hearing loss and tinnitus, and wore two hearing aids in his later years.

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Jeff Beck - In a 1993 interview with MTV, Beck said that he had to drop out of a Guns and Roses gig because during rehearsals, Slash's amp rig aggravated his tinnitus.

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Jeff Beck - In an interview, Beck said that it was his left ear that had severely been damaged.

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John Entwistle - According to The Who scholar Andy Neill, Entwistle was pretty much deaf from the age of fourteen, as he had an addiction to loudness that remained with him throughout his life.

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John Entwistle - He relied on lip-reading.

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Kevin Shields - The My Bloody Valentine guitarist blamed his hearing damage on listening to mixes in headphones at very loud levels.

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Kevin Shields - Shields also never gave his ears time to recover, as he would constantly play loud music.

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Liam Gallagher - Talking about being diagnosed with tinnitus, the former Oasis front man, said "I learned to live with it a long time ago. I put up with it - I just talk really loudly over it."

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Liam Gallagher - Gallagher added, ''Without a doubt I have tinnitus. You're not a proper rock 'n' roll star if you don't."

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Louis Tomlinson - "I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that," Tomlinson once told the Daily Mirror.

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Louis Tomlinson - The former member of One Direction said that he had developed tinnitus and suffered headaches for three days after a performance in Liverpool.

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Mick Fleetwood - Fleetwood told Rolling Stone that he was a major glutton for volume, and that in order for him to feel the music, he has to hear it.

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Mick Fleetwood - "Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper", the Fleetwood Mac drummer added.

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Mick Ronson - The guitarist had tinnitus in the ear that was closest to his amplifiers.

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Ozzy Osbourne - “I suffer from permanent tinnitus because of all the head-banging I’ve done, which means I’ve got this constant ringing in my ears, which has also made me somewhat deaf."

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Ozzy Osbourne - "It’s like this WHEEEE noise in my head all the time. Should have worn earplugs, I guess. I still head-bang, mind you.”

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Pete Townshend - In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Townshend said that he was concerned with his tinnitus, as it had grown so bad that he could be forced to stop performing with The Who altogether.

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Finished - He added that if his hearing was going to be a problem, that The Who would be finished.  "I can’t really see any way around the issue.”

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Phil Collins - In March 2011, the former Genesis drummer, and singer had to call time on his career due to hearing loss.

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Stop - Collins told the Guardian, "That’s God saying "Time to stop."

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Roger Daltrey - During a recent solo show, The Who front man confessed to the crowd that he now relies on lip-reading, and wears large in-ear monitors to follow the music at live gigs.​

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Roger Daltrey - Daltrey told the crowd, “The trouble with these ear things that I wear is that I am very, very deaf."

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Sting - During a SiriusXM’s Artist Confidential show, Sting told the crowd that he was fairly deaf.

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Sting - He continued, "I tried wearing a hearing aid, but I heard more than I wanted to hear!"

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Andy Partridge - In an interview with the A.V. Club, the XTC front man revealed that he had appalling tinnitus after a studio accident.

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Andy Partridge - When asked if tinnitus makes it hard for him to play or listen to music, Partridge said "...it's really put me off music in a big way, because I find a lot of sounds upsetting now. Where before they were thrilling or beauteous, I just find a lot of them annoying now."

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John Illsley - In an interview with the Daily Mail, the Dire Straits guitarist said "After every gig, my ears would be ringing loudly for at least an hour..."

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John Illsley - He became aware of his hearing loss in 1989, when he went for a medical, and was really shocked. "At that point, I knew I had some muffled hearing but nothing as much as 30 per cent loss - which is what it turned out to be." Illsley said. 

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Plan B - British rapper Plan B also suffers from tinnitus, but initially thought he was just hearing trains pass.

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Plan B - "At first I thought it was trains rushing by as I live near a railway line." But the rapper admitted that it was caused by years of being subjected to loud music.

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Gary Numan - The 80's electro legend confessed that he didn't look after his ears.

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Gary Numan - “It’s getting serious, to the point that I can’t mix my music properly anymore, so it’s majorly impacted on my career. If I’d just looked after them when I was younger then this would never have happened, so I very much regret it.” Numan said.

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Noel Gallagher - Like his brother Liam, years of performing at ear-splitting volumes caused Noel to have tinnitus.

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Noel Gallagher - ”I went for a brain scan. They did find it… I’ve got a bizarre ringing in my ears. I think it’s just through playing guitar for the last 20 years..." Gallagher said in an interview with TalkSport radio host Andy Goldstein.

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