AC DC Brian Johnson Hearing Loss and Race Car Driving

After Johnson was forced to leave the band and its largevenue performances in 2016 due to a risk of total hearing loss, the Back in Black singer turned to the second love of his life after music. That was racing cars, and he found himself winning more than he had in the past. People would come up to me afterwards and say, Brian, youre fearless , but I wasn t fearless, Johnson writes in The Lives of Brian, his new memoir, via Ultimate Classic Rock. I just didnt f care any more. I d always thought that the best way to go out would be at 180 mph, flatout around a corner. Youd hit the wall and boom, it would be over, just like In 2016, Johnson said in a press release that the day of his hearingloss diagnosis was the darkest day of my professional He had been advised that if he continued to perform with what he called the loudest band in the world, he risked losing what was left of his hearing. Our