This Goes To 11: Spinal Tap Movie Trivia

A Prediction Of The Future?

Since the release of This is Spinal Tap, many bands have come to experience the same embarrassing and exasperating events that the film band suffered through. One instance: during U2’s 1997 tour to promote their recently-released album “Pop,” they chose to reveal themselves to their audience by emerging from a gigantic lemon.

Unfortunately, the lemon frequently malfunctioned. In one such occasion, guitarist The Edge was stuck in the prop fruit for an excruciating moment. In an interview with The Guardian, set designer Willie Williams recreated the scene: “So The Edge comes down from the stairs, and to start his guitar he has to kick a switch on his foot-pedal. Well, he ended up on his hands and knees, feeling around for the pedal. Later he said to me, ‘There I was at the debut, the premiere opening night, and this voice came into my head: I’m Derek Smalls.’”