Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet

The Songs All Sound The Same


Around Christmas 1986, an "unsanctioned biography" of Shadowy Men by Skip Truant was published. This extremely short "biography", called The Songs All Sound The Same is a wonderful parody of a biography, intended as a joke.

None of the stuff in this is true. None of it. OK, well the names "Reid", "Brian" and "Don" really are the guys' names, but that's where the reality part ends. Everything else is a joke, and loosely based on the Sex Pistols career.

You've got two ways to read The Songs All Sound The Same. You can click on the giant green finger below to go to the next page of the book, or you can just read the text as is, but you'll be missing the neat cartoons which parody Brian's style. If you're looking at the scanned version, you can click on any of the pages to see a much bigger scan (that will be easier to read).

Many thanks to Grant Diamond for passing this my way.


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