Busker who can only play Wonderwall and American Pie arrested

A busker who only knows two songs was arrested after threatening a pub landlord who pleaded with him to learn how to play something else. Dean Langley played Wonderwall by Oasis and American Pie by Don McLean songs over and over again for more than two hours before being approached by a pub landlord who pleaded with him to stop playing or learn another tune.

The 29-year-old guitar player then started hurling abuse at the landlord outside the Anchor Pub in Hastings, East Sussex, on July 29. When cops arrived to arrest Langley he shouted abuse at them and pulled away from officers.



He was arrested for begging in a public place and using abusive words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress and pleaded guilty to both charges at Hastings Magistrates' Court. The court heard how Langley was a 'serial offender' and had been arrested for begging on numerous occasions. Sam Wingfield, defending, said: "He admitted the offence both in the police station and here today.

"He accepts he should not be begging, its not the most heinous of crimes but he accepts it causes a nuisance to other people." Magistrates fined Langley £80 for his threatening behaviour, but imposed no separate penalty for begging. He was ordered to pay £50 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.