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Rock addiction is ‘disability’
By admin | June 21, 2007
A heavy metal fan has been awarded sickness handouts after doctors said his addiction to music was a disability. The ruling means Roger Tullgren, 42, will pocket thousands of pounds in state benefits to help finance his 36-year obsession.
His boss is also letting him play his ear-splitting music at work and giving him time off for concerts, reports the Daily Mirror. It marks an end to Roger’s 10-year bid to have his “condition”, which began when he started listening to Ozzy Osbourne’s band Black Sabbath in 1971, officially classified as a handicap.
Bedecked in his traditional heavy metal skull and crossbones jewellery he said: “Some might say I should grow up and learn to listen to other types of music but I can’t.