This Goes To 11: Spinal Tap Movie Trivia

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The main actors in This is Spinal Tap (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer) play all their own musical instruments. The three occasionally make appearances and play concerts as their Spinal Tap personas. They’ve played many benefit shows, including “Hear ‘n Aid,” which raised funds for Ethiopian refugees, and Live Earth, a climate change awareness event. For Hear ‘n Aid, the band wrote an original song titled “Warmer Than Hell.” Spinal Tap also appeared at an SOS/Live Earth concert, about which Rob Reiner (as filmmaker Marty DeBergi) quipped, “They’re not that environmentally conscious, but they’ve heard of global warming. Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing – that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler.”