From article snatch, quoting from Mick's comments to Rolling Stone
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article...nnitus/1535383
Hearing loss is wide-spread in the industry. Kevin Shields, guitarist/singer for My Bloody Valentine, says “I did the damage to my ears listening to mixes in headphones at very loud levels without giving my ears time to recover.” Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac had a similar experience, “I was a major glutton for volume: ‘Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.’ Sooner or later you’re going to pay the reaper.”