Did they ever find out who that English piano guy was?

[twickster]

@GorillaMan

Radio 4 were this evening sceptical about the Mirror’s claims, as you would expect them to be. ‘An insider’ is hardly the most reliable of cites.

Which claims – that they’d identified him, or … ?

[gaucho]

Apparently he’s a German who lost his job in Paris and came to England to kill himself.(?) On NPR right now…

[deevee]

I hear he also did a killer rendition of John Cage’s “Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds”

[astro]

@Endemic

From the BBC

It appears that the English public is easily impressed…

Hey!!! If it’s good enough For Steve Reich…

[Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd]

@deevee

I hear he also did a killer rendition of John Cage’s “Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds”

Knock knock.

silence

Knock knock.

silence

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

John Cage.

[GorillaMan]

@twickster

Which claims – that they’d identified him, or … ?

Basically anything beyond the fact that they’d identified him. Because that’s all that’s been confirmed by the NHS or by German authorities.

[Fish_Cheer]

@GorillaMan

Basically anything beyond the fact that they’d identified him. Because that’s all that’s been confirmed by the NHS or by German authorities.

See this link. As a source, the Deutsche Welle usually is as good as it gets.

[GorillaMan]

@Fish Cheer

See this link. As a source, the Deutsche Welle usually is as good as it gets.

Yes, that article proves my point. A confirmation from Germany that the guy is a 20-year-old Bavarian, followed by nothing else other than a regurgitation of the Mirror’s story.

[GorillaMan]

Here’s a BBC article from today that asks a few more questions, and makes the valid point that if the gist of the Mirror story is accurate:

…this is not a story about one man fooling the health system, as some papers have called it. A silent suicidal man who spends four months in a psychiatric ward suggests some form of mental illness.

[Mops]

And that’s the end of this media story, if medical confidentiality is taken seriously.

[Rayne_Man]

He has now been named :- BBC