Friends Raise Funds for Mick Hargreaves

Friends and family members of Mick Hargreaves of Southampton have been changing their Facebook profile pictures to his image this week to show solidarity as Hargreaves recovers from early Sunday in Bayport outside a tavern where he performed with his band hours earlier.

Now they are using the social networking site to spread the word about donating to his recovery fund.

"So many wonderful friends and fans want to lend support to Mick Hargreaves in his difficult recovery from a severe head injury, sustained last weekend in a vicious and unprovoked attack," reads the Mick Hargreaves Recovery Fund Facebook event page, created by Laura Perrotti.

Hargreaves suffered two very large lacerations to his head, which have been stapled shut, and two fractures of his skull, his sister said.

He is being treated at in East Patchogue, where he is reportedly — and disappointed about gigs he'll have to miss.

There are three ways to donate:

• Visit in Amagansett and leave a check made out to Michael Hargreaves or cash in the jar by the register.
• Donate online using John Hanford's website.
• Or mail a check to Hargreaves' parents' home: Bob & Peggy Hargreaves, 10 Braddock Court, Coram, NY 11727.

According to the recovery fund Facebook page, a benefit concert is in the works and details will be announced soon.