Author: Mike Roberts
Alternate names: Roberts, Mike, 1969-; Roberts, Mike, musicien; Roberts, Mike 19..-.... musicien
Born: 1969
Bio: MIKE ROBERTS studied Painting at Chelsea School of Art and Music at Goldsmiths College. Taught filmmaking by the late Anne Rees-Mogg who encouraged him to make pop videos with his band the Avant Gardeners, he went on to co-devise live music for silent films which were performed at venues across Europe and attracted countercultural fans such as Ken Campbell and Viv Stanshall. In the 1990s he founded easy listening big band The Mike Flowers Pops and reached No.2 in the UK pop charts with his version of Oasis's Wonderwall. (Lou Reed said it was "one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life.") He is currently collaborating on a 'poperetta' based on the life and work of the British pop artist Pauline Boty, entitled BUM. How Art Made Pop (And PopBecame Art) is his first book.-NYU