This Goes To 11: Spinal Tap Movie Trivia

They Fooled the Prince of Darkness

To say that the humor in the This is Spinal Tap was close to the bone might be an understatement. In fact, one of those duped audience members was the godfather of heavy metal himself, Ozzy Osbourne. The Black Sabbath frontman claimed that he couldn’t understand why everyone else in the theater was laughing at a documentary. Others famous musicians who were rumored to be confused by Spinal Tap were guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen and all of the members of the English rock band Foghat. The Edge, U2’s guitarist, once said “I didn’t laugh, I wept. It was so close to the truth.”