This Is Spinal Tap

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Other musical parodies

This is Spinal Tap was predated by a similar British heavy metal satire; The Comic Strip Presents... Bad News Tour (Channel 4, 1983), which was followed by a sequel, More Bad News, in 1988. Bad News was a direct parody of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands, and featured contemporary alternative comedians Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Rik Mayall of The Young Ones. Bad News also guested on some TV music shows and released an album, although the project was overshadowed by Spinal Tap.

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The Comic Strip Presents... - Bad News Tour - Channel 4 - More Bad News - New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Adrian Edmondson - Nigel Planer - Rik Mayall - The Young Ones

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In a similar vein, the British film Still Crazy (1998) starring Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly and Bill Nighy depicts the chaotic comeback tour of a 1970s glam-rock band. The film was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

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Jimmy Nail - Timothy Spall - Billy Connolly - Bill Nighy - Dick Clement - Ian La Frenais

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Other notable spoof rock bands include The Rutles (a Beatles parody band created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes, who predate Spinal Tap); psychedelic parodists, The Dukes of Stratosphear (actually XTC in disguise); Beatallica, a band that play "Beatles songs in the key of Metallica"; and The Hee Bee Gee Bees, who parodied the Bee Gees, and were largely the brainchild of Philip Pope, who also wrote satirical songs for the BBC's Radio Active, Not the Nine O'Clock News and ITV's Spitting Image.

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The Rutles - Beatles - Eric Idle - Neil Innes - XTC - Beatallica - Metallica - Hee Bee Gee Bees - Bee Gees - Philip Pope - BBC - Radio Active - Not the Nine O'Clock News - ITV - Spitting Image

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' is a cult movie, especially within Western Canada, that centres around two head-bangers who share a love of hard rock and beer.

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Fear of a Black Hat is a 1994 Rusty Cundieff picture that, although it parodies the excesses of rap of the 90s instead of rock of the ?70s and ?80s, clearly (and explicitly, according to the creator) owes much to Spinal Tap.

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Fear of a Black Hat - Rusty Cundieff

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