“World’s worst busker” has died

Michael Hogg, a guitarist and singer who was once dubbed “the world’s worst busker”, has died after losing a short battle with cancer.

He was well known in Glastonbury and Bath, UK, for his terrible singing and guitar playing under the name Mushroom Mick.

Mr Hogg had been suffering from a cough for about a year, but thought nothing of it until a couple of months ago when he started to feel ill. He went to a see a doctor, who quickly diagnosed him with lung cancer and told him he had six months to live. Mr Hogg died only a few weeks later, on December 4, aged 55.

He lived in Bolton until he was 19, moved down south to “follow his dreams” and hoped to make it rich as a musician, but sadly died penniless.

He was voted the world’s worst busker in a national newspaper poll after being told that he was scaring tourists away from Bath with his city centre busking.

Source: http://www.burytimes.co.uk/