“I promise you, after I burn,” Derek Smalls growls on Spinal Tap’s new song, “that I’m gonna be rockin’/ In the urn.” Harry Shearer, who plays Smalls and wrote the song, says the idea was simple: “I ...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues revisits the subjects of 1984's This Is Spinal Tap for a reunion concert. The long-in-the-works sequel reunites director Rob Reiner with stars Christopher Guest, ...

Satirist Harry Shearer voices several characters on The Simpsons; he’s the bassist for Spinal Tap, host of Le Show on public radio and an impersonator extraordinaire. Working with historian Stanley ...