Mingering Mike
Mingering Mike was a very prolific funk and soul musicians that was active i nthe 1960’s. However, it turned out that he never actually existed and was created by Mike Smith, a teenager based in Washington DC who created many album covers but not any actual records.
David Manning
David Manning was a fictitious movie critic who gave glowing reviews of films like A Knight’s Tale and The Animal. However, the critic was an invention of Sony marketing director Matthew Cramer, who got in trouble for giving positive reviews to these films, which led many people to go see the movies and were very disappointed.