• Spinal Tap (stylized as Spın̈al Tap, with a dotless letter i and a metal umlaut over the n) are a fictional English heavy metal band created by the American...
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  • This Is Spinal Tap (also known as This Is Spın̈al Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi) is a 1984 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed...
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  • Spinal Tap II is an upcoming American mockumentary comedy film directed by Rob Reiner. It is a sequel to the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap. Christopher...
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  • inserted into the spinal canal This Is Spinal Tap, 1984 mockumentary about a fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap (band), the fictional band from the film...
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    This Is Spinal Tap (or simply Spinal Tap) is the soundtrack to the film This Is Spinal Tap, released in 1984. It was re-released in 2000 with lyrics and...
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  • is an album by the heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Released on June 16, 2009, it is the first release under the Spinal Tap name since 1992's Break Like the...
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    Derek Smalls (category Spinal Tap (band) members)
    Shearer in the spoof rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. He is the bassist for mock British heavy metal group Spinal Tap, playing alongside guitarists Nigel Tufnel...
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  • online games TapTap, video game distribution platform Spinal Tap (band), a parody band Tap dance, a type of dance using the sounds of tap shoes striking...
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  • Nigel Tufnel (category Spinal Tap (band) members)
    the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. In the film, he is the lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap. He was played by actor Christopher...
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  • The Otto Show (category Spinal Tap (band))
    Show" features an appearance from Spın̈al Tap, a parody band that first appeared in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984). The episode guest stars...
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  • Up to eleven (category Spinal Tap (band))
    eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knobs...
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  • David Kaff (category Spinal Tap (band) members)
    This Is Spinal Tap (1984). Kaff was a founding member of the progressive rock group Rare Bird from 1969 to 1975, who were one of the first bands to sign...
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  • Break Like the Wind (category Spinal Tap (band) albums)
    Break Like the Wind is a 1992 album by the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap. The songs include a range of genres, from the glam metal anthem "Bitch...
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  • The Folksmen (category Spinal Tap (band))
    often in conjunction with the same creators' fictitious heavy metal band, Spinal Tap. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer first appeared...
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    Lumbar puncture (LP), also known as a spinal tap, is a medical procedure in which a needle is inserted into the spinal canal, most commonly to collect cerebrospinal...
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  • all-girl teenage rock band The Runaways. After the demise of the band, she was cast as Cindy by director Rob Reiner in This Is Spinal Tap. Her film Edgeplay...
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    lead vocalist and co-lead guitarist of the fictional rock band Spinal Tap in This Is Spinal Tap and had roles in several Christopher Guest ensemble films...
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    him up as a hitch-hiker. In the rock music "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap, band members gather around Presley's grave at Graceland and attempt to sing...
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  • Ric Parnell (category The Deviants (band) members)
    work in the band Atomic Rooster, he is probably best known for his role as the ill-fated drummer Mick Shrimpton in the film This Is Spinal Tap. Born in London...
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    heavy metal bands—for example, those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, the Accüsed, Mötley Crüe and the parody bands Spın̈al Tap and Green Jellÿ...
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    their determination to keep going have been compared to the fictional band Spinal Tap. Anvil began in April 1973 in a suburb of Toronto, when high school...
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  • heavy metal band's journey to their dream gig in Norway. The movie satirizes heavy metal tropes (a la Metalocalypse and This Is Spinal Tap), with a focus...
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  • John Sinclair (musician) (category Uriah Heep (band) members)
    Heep and playing for Ozzy Osbourne's band. He also is credited with styling keyboard parts for This Is Spinal Tap. Sinclair is now a qualified hypnotherapist...
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    releasing the album Smalls Change in character as Derek Smalls from This Is Spinal Tap, and Spence interviewed Shearer as Smalls for Vice. Spence received a...
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  • with his band and a venue loosely based on his music video for "Let's Dance", also appears in the game. The bands Queen, Blur, and Spinal Tap have Lego...
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    films shot in mockumentary style. The series of films began with This Is Spinal Tap (which he did not direct) and continued with Waiting for Guffman, Best...
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    Todd Sucherman (category Styx (band) members)
    Culbertson, The Falling Wallendas, Steve Cole, and Spinal Tap, among others. Sucherman also plays with the band of fellow Styx member Lawrence Gowan. In September...
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    Thecal sac (category Spinal cord)
    vertebra. The dura is pierced with a needle during a lumbar puncture (spinal tap). For epidural anesthesia an anesthetic agent is injected into the space...
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  • allowed him to swear liberally. The rock/comedy film This is Spinal Tap has a scene where the band are having an argument in a similar style. Presley later...
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  • silent background cameos. In "License to Milkshake", comedian and Spinal Tap band member Michael McKean guest starred as the voice of Captain Frostymug...
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