This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
Books with substantial mentioning of This Is Spinal Tap
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Kathryn Bernheimer The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking Secaucus, NJ, 1999 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1985, A Survey of 1984 Films Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985 pp. 484-488 
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Articles with substantial mentioning of This Is Spinal Tap
| The 45 greatest rock 'n' roll moments in movie history, in: Empire, nr. 162, 2002 pp. 124-135 |
| Nick de Semlyen, "I was Frank The Bunny!", in: Empire, nr. 208 (October), 2006 pp. 124-128 |
Reviews
| Dan Jolin, This Is Spinal Tap, in: Empire, nr. 188, 2005 pp. 154-155 (DVD review) |
