The Piano Man

A little while back, I was watching Good Morning America as I usually do while getting ready for work and they had a blurb about this guy who was found distressed, wandering on a beach in England, dripping wet and unable to speak.

They don't have a clue who he is and he won't speak so they think he's suffered soem kind of trauma. The only thing he will do is play the piano or draw pictures of one:


The mysterious 'Piano Man'


A very frightened 'Piano Man'


One of the drawings he has done. The only way he seems to be able to communicate right now.

I'm completely intrigued by the story and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I find his image haunting - especially the one where he seems to be cowering :( I just want to give him a hug, poor guy. Or maybe because the circumstances in which he was found are so mysterious. Dripping wet, wandering distressed along a beach, labels removed from every stitch of clothing he had on, won't, can't or refuses to speak...

Very interesting.

The latest update on The Piano Man is that the psychiatric hospital where he is being cared for has received a large number of tips on their hotline and are beginning to try and track them down. But it's been a couple of weeks now and his image has been broadcast all over the world - surely someone must recognize him.

This is one I'll be following. Here's a BBC article about him and here's another. You can google 'missing piano man' to find more if you're as intrigued as I am about this man.