French street musician theory ‘one of 300 about Piano Man’

A THEORY that the so-called Piano Man is a French street musician has neither been proven nor discounted, and is one of 300 identities that are being investigated, his social worker said yesterday.

A 33-year-old Polish illegal immigrant approached police in Rome, Italy, yesterday, after spotting the mystery man’s photograph in a newspaper, and claimed he knew him.

He said he was sure the pianist, who has not spoken since he was found wandering aimlessly near the beach in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, was Steven Villa Masson, with whom he worked in the French resort of Nice.