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decadnids
22nd August 2005, 16:35
The so-called "Piano Man" has returned home after being discharged from hospital.It follows a "marked improvement" in his condition, a spokesman for the West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust said.Social workers spent months trying to help the man, who was found wandering near a beach on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.

He was wearing a dripping wet suit and tie and refused to say a word.

To make matters worse, all the labels had been cut out of his clothing.

He was dubbed the Piano Man after the Trust said he "played classical music beautifully for four hours" to carers.

It has since emerged, however, he only played the same note continuously.

According to the Daily Mirror, he finally broke his silence last week.

The paper says a nurse went into his hospital room in Dartford and asked: 'Are you going to speak to us today?'

He simply answered 'Yes, I think I will.'

He told staff he was from Germany but made his way to the UK after losing his job in Paris.

He yet to be named, although the German government says he is a 21-year-old Bavarian.

A spokesman for the German embassy in London said: "The hospital called us up on Friday morning saying that there was a man claiming to be a German national.

"We contacted his parents and his identification was confirmed. We gave him replacement travel documents and he left the UK using his own arrangements on Saturday morning."




http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22082005/140/bum-note-piano-man-breaks-silence.html

how can played classical music beautifully for four hours

really mean

It has since emerged, however, he only played the same note continuously.

its a weird weird world.

penciLneck
22nd August 2005, 16:37
maybe it was a stockhausen composition.

kams
22nd August 2005, 16:49
:)

Yer_Maw
22nd August 2005, 16:51
"To make matters worse, all the labels had been cut out of his clothing."


oh no!

that is a really daft story. Why did they even bother.

Hagbard
22nd August 2005, 16:58
Give him a break, he was playing the piano part of Terry Rileys 'In c'.

although in theory it is supposed to be played by a 'beautiful girl'.

grobelaar
22nd August 2005, 17:23
Hooray, trust the press to entirely fabricate bullshit - check events that day there's was probably hundreds of Iraqis getting blown to smithereens, much better to run the heart warming story of a German whose lost his marbles and fancied a few months free food and lodging on teh NHS

grobelaar
22nd August 2005, 17:27
Mind you, I'd probably have chosen somewhere other than Britain for free hospital food