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Five basses! Spinal Tap recruit Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat for bottom-heavy Jimmy Kimmel performance

Movie and album are both out Friday

MusicRadar

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review – rockers return for mockusequel of pin-sharp laughs and melancholy

Enter the Tapocalypse as Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner return in a still-funny, cameo-studded telling of the hapless band’s final gig

The Guardian - UK

"It's up to King Charles, it's not up to us." British rock legends Spinal Tap play down speculation over possible knighthoods, excite US talk show host with surprisingly meaty Big Bottom

Could we soon see Spinal Tap trio on their knees awaiting the touch of King Charles' sword? Time will tell

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‘Our songs last three minutes but they feel like an hour’: the return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11!

Over 40 years since This Is Spinal Tap was mistaken for a comedy, its hard-rocking subjects are back for a legally obligated final gig. Our writer smells the glove

The Guardian - UK

“Spinal Tap was getting ready for one of its shows. Paul McCartney was in another room rehearsing, and he happened to walk in one day”: Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner on the real-life encounter that inspired a scene in the highly anticipated sequel

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will see Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls reunite after 41 years – alongside on-screen appearances by McCartney and Elton John

Guitar World

Filmmaker Marty DiBergi is hosting a live Q&A with Spinal Tap legends David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls ahead of the release of his new documentary Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

"Why don't you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top number, and make that a little louder?"

Louder

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 live coverage – All the news from SDCC 2025 as it happened

All the news and panel announcements from SDCC 2025, as it happened, can be found right here

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Watch Paul McCartney and Elton John (and Spinal Tap) in the trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

41 years on, the trailer for the sequel to the original Spinal Tap movie is finally upon us

Metal Hammer

5 Reasons Why This Is Spinal Tap Is Still The Funniest Movie I've Ever Seen In My Entire Life

There really is a fine line between stupid and clever.

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“I walk in and see on the board: ‘Beck, Satriani, Lukather, Slash.’ I thought it was a send-up”: Spinal Tap once surprised Nigel Tufnel with an all-star guitar solo tribute – but he wasn't thrilled about it

Explaining (well, bickering about, really) the star-studded Break Like the Wind, David St. Hubbins maintained that the collaboration was merely intended as a friendly gesture from admirers, and that Tufnel misunderstood it

Guitar World

“This time, we’re going beyond 11.” Watch the first teaser for Spinal Tap sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, as a release date for the second 'rockumentary' on the legendary English hard rock band is announced

Prepare to go one louder with David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, Derek Smalls, Elton John, Paul McCartney and more

Metal Hammer

Teaser released for Spinal Tap II as Elton John confirmed for cameo

The brief clip shows an amp being set to maximum as the cinema release date is revealed as September.

Evening Standard

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

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Metal Hammer

"Nigel has been running a cheese and guitar shop in Berwick-upon-Tweed": Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner reveals what the band have been up to since breaking up

A sequel to the classic Spinal Tap movie will hit theatres in 2025

Louder

“Spinal Tap is demanding that the Trump campaign refrain from playing Sex Farm at their rallies.” Legendary English rockers Spinal Tap forbid Donald Trump from turning his presidential campaign up to 11

Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls warns Donald Trump not to plough through the band's metaphorical beanfields

Metal Hammer

Hello Cleveland! What's wrong with being sexy? Eleven ways in which Spinal Tap changed the lexicon of rock

The improvised lines from Spinal Tap that have been assimilated into common rock parlance and beyond

Louder

“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

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The Guardian - US

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’

Louder

That time Prog met Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls!

Listen to the Prog Magazine progcast when we interviewed the legend that is Derek Albion Smalls

The Guardian - 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

Post your questions for Spın̈al Tap bassist Derek Smalls

Fresh from playing Glastonbury in 2009, the courgette-crotch-stuffing bass player and botanist is back! With the sequel to the classic rockumentary in the works and a Barbie-hating single. Ask him anything in the comments

Metal Hammer

Watch Spinal Tap go toe-to-toe with Jonathan Ross on British prime-time TV

See the band tell Mick Fleetwood to his face why he wasn't good enough to be their 13th drummer

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