Mingering Mike
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Mingering Mike is a fictitious funk and soul recording artist created in the late 1960s as the subject of works of album art by a young Mike Stevens[1][2][3]. More recently, Mingering Mike was rediscovered by law firm investigator Dori Hadar and his friend Frank Beylotte, who came across the art work at a flea market. Mingering Mike had created a whole complex, yet nonexistent music career (including a Bruce Lee concept album), and had released more than 50 album covers in 10 years. When Mike was rediscovered, it was learned that he had yet more unreleased material from the same time period as his first releases and it is in the process of being released as a real album[4]. Mingering Mike at first refused to release his real name or allow a photo to be taken of him, because he's afraid his new celebrity status will cause him to lose his two day jobs[5].
In 2007, Dori Hadar released a book of Mike's work entitled “The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar,” published by Princeton Architectural Press.
[edit] References
Mingering Mike, Swindle Magazine
- ^ The New Yorker on Mingering Mike
- ^ "The Home of All Things Mingering", mingeringmike.com
- ^ "Mingering Mike", The Kentucky Talent Foundation
- ^ Xeni Jardin, "Mingering Mike: Digging Up a Long-Lost Star", NPR's Day To Day
- ^ Neil Strauss. "A Well-Imagined Star", The New York Times
