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A ludicrous six-neck guitar played by Spinal Tap has gone to auction – and you better buy it before I do

For between £2,000 and £3,000, the most ridiculous guitar I’ve ever seen could be yours

Metal Hammer

“I'm not having that!” The night Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher stormed out of a Spinal Tap gig in New York after discovering that the English hard rock legends weren't actually a real band, or indeed English

No-one tell Liam Gallagher that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy aren't real, the poor lamb is still getting over the shock of learning that Spinal Tap aren't who he thought they were

Louder

From Darkness to Light review – Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust film rescued from oblivion

Lewis grappled with serious themes with The Day the Clown Cried, but as this documentary reveals, to the end he remained haunted by its failure

The Guardian - UK

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Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith will have cameos in the This Is Spinal Tap sequel

Two of the biggest drummers in rock and metal will join Elton John, Paul McCartney and more in Rob Reiner’s long-awaited mockumentary sequel

Metal Hammer

Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues — release date, cast, plot and everything we know about the comedy sequel

Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues, a sequel to the classic rock-and-roll mockumentary, is on the way. Here is everything we know about it.

WhatToWatch

“We were spoofing the idea of the concept album, but in a fun way that didn’t totally mock it… It’s only in recent times that I’ve appreciated how complex the music is”: Why Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick needed to be serious - and a send-up

Ian Anderson set out to make “the mother of all concept albums” while incorporating a large measure of Monty Python - but some people laughed at all the wrong places

Louder

This Is Spinal Tap at 40: the note-perfect rock satire still goes up to 11

Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner made a 1984 classic that ingeniously straddles the ‘fine line between stupid and clever’

The Guardian - US

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32 SNL Cast Members That Made A Huge Impact In Less Than 5 Seasons On The Show

In just five season or less, these SNL cast members became stars.

Cinemablend

The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer on the Spinal Tap sequel and ‘loathing’ SNL boss Lorne Michaels: ‘He’s an expert at manipulating people’

The voice of Mr Burns and Ned Flanders talks to Louis Chilton about speaking truth to power on his long-running radio series ‘Le Show’ and why he never saw Elon Musk as a business genius

The Independent UK

Can Spinal Tap sequel live up to film’s ludicrous legend, 40 years on?

It was the rock-mockumentary that set a standard for those that followed. Now Macca and Elton are joining the band for an encore. Will its lethal wit survive?

The Guardian - UK

Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

The bass player legend, played by Harry Shearer in the film This Is Spinal Tap, talks facial hair, courgettes and how to break out of a cocoon

The Guardian - UK

Slapstick Festival 2023 announces full line up including Harry Shearer from The Simpsons

Several comedy legends have joined the full line up for the festival

Bristol Post

‘Spinal Tap’ sequel planned for 2024, ‘band’ back together

They still need a drummer.

Tribune News Service

This Is Spinal Tap sequel set for release in 2024, reveals director Rob Reiner

Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest will return as the infamous British rock band 40 years after the original film

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Ric Parnell death: Spinal Tap drummer who played Mick Shrimpton dies aged 70

News was announced by ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ co-star Harry Shearer

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