Spinal Tap blur fact and fiction

2 March 1984: Number 37 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicComedy movies don't enter the realms of rock history, but This Is Spinal Tap was different. Its attention to detail in its depiction of a squabbling and struggling metal band was so perfect – and so well received – that real metal bands started to claim they had been the inspiration for the pratfalls portrayed.Black Sabbath's disastrous appearance at the 1983 Reading festival, with an oversized Stonehen...

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