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Full story, ongoing at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_wk
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Any thoughts on this strange chap? He's also a motivational speaker whose philosophy is something like hedonism, but could he be some kind of media prank? I would have thought his middling fame would have gone against such trickery being successful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_wk
Rumours claim that "Andrew W.K." is an actor, a "front man" hired to play the role and perform the A.W.K. music and that before there was an "Andrew W.K.," the press was holding interviews with a Steev Mike, whose image and sound are the same as "Andrew W.K."
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Andrew participated as drummer 57 in the Boredoms' 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7th, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York. His look was drastically different, as he cut his hair short, had no facial hair, and wore very different clothing from his usual attire. [2] However, pictures from Andrew's official site conflict with the fan pictures, showing him with medium, shoulder-length hair. It is suspected that the fan pictures have been edited or doctored to remove some of Andrew's hair.
In 2005, The Fader magazine featured a full-page article on Andrew W.K. which showed a radically different looking individual, with close cropped hair and different clothing, claiming to be Andrew W.K. This set off a subsequent wave of rumours that there were multiple individuals going under the "Andrew W.K." name. [4] The paranoia culminated during Andrew's "High-Way Party Cruiser Tour", during which many audience members were enraged when they claimed someone else was posing as Andrew W.K. and playing shows in his place. [5] It was never confirmed whether there were A.W.K. doppelgängers, or whether it was a case of "double mistaken identity". Andrew has used the phrase "self impersonation" in recent interviews, causing more speculation. Some fans have even believed that there was a switch in 2005, and a new actor began playing the role of Andrew W.K. A wave of online photo comparisons only caused further confusion. Andrew himself has not confirmed nor denied any of the related rumors.
Any thoughts on this strange chap? He's also a motivational speaker whose philosophy is something like hedonism, but could he be some kind of media prank? I would have thought his middling fame would have gone against such trickery being successful.