For those about to rock, we salute warn you: iPod-carumba

This just in from Blighty: Your iPod may be hazardous to your health.


Pete Townshend lead guitarist for The Who tells The Times of London that he’s been unable to complete recording sessions for a new album because of the irreparable hearing loss he suffered listening to ear-splitting rock.

Said Townsend, “I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.”

But there’s a catch.

According to the Times, “Townshend said that excessive volume at the group’s explosive concerts was not the cause.

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