Blind, deaf, 88yo Lismore grandfather launches music career to beat ‘Isolation Blues’

When Barry “Bazza” Morris took up music lessons at 84, he wasn’t searching for fame.

But the now 88-year-old, who is blind and deaf, has amassed a cult following since uploading an original song and film clip to YouTube called Barry’s Isolation Blues.

“I didn’t want my song on a hit parade,” Mr Morris said.

Mr Morris’s song was inspired by the experience of being in lockdown at his retirement village in Lismore on the New South Wales north coast.

“I couldn’t go anywhere, people couldn’t visit me, and I did have a lot of time to think,” he said.

“I did not want to hurt or offend anyone who had a friend or relative who had been ill or died…