“I promise you, after I burn,” Derek Smalls growls on Spinal Tap’s new song, “that I’m gonna be rockin’/ In the urn.” Harry Shearer, who plays Smalls and wrote the song, says the idea was simple: “I ...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues revisits the subjects of 1984's This Is Spinal Tap for a reunion concert. The long-in-the-works sequel reunites director Rob Reiner with stars Christopher Guest, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. There’s a lot going on during the end credits with Nigel Tufnel, Michael McKean, Derek Smalls ...

The crimped hair may be gray, but the hair metal still rocks: Spinal Tap is back, baby. That’s right, one of England’s loudest and most punctual (and still fictional) heavy metal bands is getting back ...

Satirist Harry Shearer voices several characters on The Simpsons; he’s the bassist for Spinal Tap, host of Le Show on public radio and an impersonator extraordinaire. Working with historian Stanley ...