Kees van der Spek missed out on a career as a pilot because of Queen | TV

entertainment">“It even influenced my entire career,” said Van der Spek, who went to Queen in Leiden a day before he was tested as a pilot. “Really great, I was at the front left all the way near that box wall”, he remembers. “It was really really hard. And I come out and I have a tinnitus and it has never gone away.”

entertainment">“So I’ve had tinnitus since 1984 or 85,” Van der Spek noted. “I’m disapproved on my ears.”

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