Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Eliza Hull - Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Joey Ramone, lead singer, Ramones - Marfan syndrome
Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Eliza Hull - Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Joey Ramone, lead singer, Ramones - Marfan syndrome
Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Eliza Hull - Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Joey Ramone, lead singer, Ramones - Marfan syndrome
Ray Charles, blind
Stevie Wonder, R&B multi-instrumentalist and singer - blind
Jerry Garcia, guitarist/singer, Grateful Dead - lost 2/3 of his right middle finger in a wood-splitting accident when he was four years old
Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Eliza Hull - Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Joey Ramone, lead singer, Ramones - Marfan syndrome
Ray Charles, blind
Stevie Wonder, R&B multi-instrumentalist and singer - blind
Jerry Garcia, guitarist/singer, Grateful Dead - lost 2/3 of his right middle finger in a wood-splitting accident when he was four years old
Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Eliza Hull - Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Joey Ramone, lead singer, Ramones - Marfan syndrome
Ray Charles, blind
Stevie Wonder, R&B multi-instrumentalist and singer - blind
Jerry Garcia, guitarist/singer, Grateful Dead - lost 2/3 of his right middle finger in a wood-splitting accident when he was four years old
Jeff Healey, blind
Tommy Iommi, guitarist, Black Sabbath – lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right (fretting) hand in an industrial accident when he was 17.
Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard - amputated left arm
Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist - badly burned in a fire when he was 18, which left him largely unable to use the ring and pinky fingers of his left (fretting) hand, forcing him to rely on his index and middle fingers for most fretwork.
Eliza Hull - Charcot Marie Tooth disease
Joey Ramone, lead singer, Ramones - Marfan syndrome
Ray Charles, blind
Stevie Wonder, R&B multi-instrumentalist and singer - blind
Jerry Garcia, guitarist/singer, Grateful Dead - lost 2/3 of his right middle finger in a wood-splitting accident when he was four years old
Jeff Healey, blind
Tommy Iommi, guitarist, Black Sabbath – lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right (fretting) hand in an industrial accident when he was 17.
Ludwig von Beethoven, composer and virtuoso pianist, deafness
A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission) - Simon & Garfunkel
Illusions in G Major - Electric Light Orchestra
Bend Over I’ll Drive - The Cramps
Come On Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her Well, I heard old Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don’t need him around, anyhow …