Statues in Motion

Statues in Motion was a Greek Post-Punk, New Wave band that was active in the very early 80s. The band had one studio album and disbanded in 1983. Alvin Dean, the lead singer, was flagged the possible artist of The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet, due to his similar vocals. The lead on Statues In Motion, however, is considered dead by the community as all aspects of search and contact have currently been exhausted.

Background

• Statues in Motion was an active band in the early 1980s, primarily recognized for their new wave and post-punk style. They were known in the Greek music scene and performed in English, which aligned them with the sound and era of The Most Mysterious Song (TMS). band disbanded in late 1983, just as the album was released. Billy Knight (Vasillis Paleokostas) left Greece due to frustrations with the album's release process .

Statues in Motion recorded one studio album, produced by Billy Knight before breaking up in 1983. Sometime in 1984, Alvin Dean disappeared without any way to contact him. Many theories have been suggested to explain this, but none have been substantiated.

Further disinformation was created through the conflation of Dean's band with an Australian band also named Statues In Motion, created in 1986, leading to speculation about a connection that is completely unverified.

Billy Knight

Statues in Motion had long been suggested as a potential lead on The Most Mysterious Song. Invvestigators decided to reach out to Billy Knight on clarification on this possible line of inquiry. Initially, Knight was clear in his communications that TMS was not a Statues in Motion song. Confusingly in following messages, he suggested that the song could have been part of Alvin Dean's solo project, a claim he made without providing any substantive evidence. This shift in was seen as suspicious by the community .

During the discussions, Knight also attempted to promote his new music projects, which was seen as unhelpful and garnered more suspicion.

Conversation with Knight remained open for some time, whereupon he began to increasingly act like an expert on the song, refuting key facts obtained from analysis of the track, such as the synth being a Yamaha DX7. Knight became hostile with the community, arguing about the song in comment sections and contradicting his earlier claim that it was a project he knew little about.

Hoaxes

There have been several hoax claims about Statues in Motion in relation to the search for TMS. The community is largely sceptical of discussion of any connection between Alvin Dean and the song at this point and supposed contacting of Alvin Dean, for example the claim by reddit user Camspiracy that they went to Alvin Dean's house, is met with a great deal of skepticism.