They also happen to be one of England’s (or anywhere’s) worst bands, and they are on a fast decent to nowhere while promoting their album “Smell the Glove.” One of the many, many delights of THIS IS ...

After All in the Family went off the air, Rob Reiner and friends were developing the famous mockumentary about a fictional heavy metal band. Lear funded through his Embassy Pictures. He writes ...

the legendary mock heavy metal group (although Liam Gallagher apparently thinks they are real) immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap will reunite for a one-off performance at ...

Sixteen years after Rob Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” originally was released ... The album art battles over “Smell the Glove.” Billy Crystal and a youthful Dana Carvey as mime waiters.

In 1984, commercial director Marty DiBergi took a film crew and followed the ill-fated “Smell the Glove” tour by English heavy metal act Spinal Tap. The resulting film went on to become a ...