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This Is Spinal Tap

Index This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap (stylized as This Is Spın̈al Tap) is a 1984 American mockumentary directed and co-written by Rob Reiner. [1]

200 relations: A Mighty Wind, A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, Aerosmith, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs, All You Need Is Cash, Altadena, California, AMC (TV channel), American Film Institute, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Andrew J. Lederer, Anjelica Huston, Anvil (band), Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Archie Hahn (actor), Astrology, Atomic Rooster, Audio commentary, Automat Pictures, Back from the Dead (Spinal Tap album), Bad News (band), Behind the Music, Best in Show (film), Big in Japan (phrase), Billy Crystal, Blu-ray, Box Office Mojo, Brad Whitford, Break Like the Wind, Bruno Kirby, CB4, CD-ROM, Charles Levin (actor), Chicago Sun-Times, Christopher Guest, Cinéma vérité, Concert film, Concert tour, Condition Critical, Cult following, Dana Carvey, Danny Kortchmar, Dave Grohl, David St. Hubbins, Dee Snider, Derek Smalls, Dokken, Dont Look Back, Dotted and dotless I, Double-sided disk, DVD, ..., Ed Begley Jr., Eddie Vedder, Embassy Pictures, Empire (film magazine), Entertainment Weekly, Fear of a Black Hat, Feral House, Flower power, For Your Consideration (film), Fran Drescher, Fred Willard, George Lynch (musician), George Petros, Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced, Gimme Shelter (1970 film), Glenn Danzig, Groupie, GTR (album), GTR (band), Guns N' Roses, Hagiography, Harry Potter, Harry Shearer, Heartbreak Hotel, Heavy metal music, Henry Rollins, Howard Hesseman, IGN, IMDb, It Might Get Loud, J. D. Considine, J. K. Rowling, Jack the Ripper, James Hetfield, Jeff Ament, Jerry Cantrell, Jim Marshall (businessman), Jimmy Page, Joe Franklin, Joyce Hyser, Julie Payne (actress, born 1946), June Chadwick, Karen Murphy (producer), Kent Beyda, Kurt Cobain, Lara Cody, Lars Ulrich, LaserDisc, Library of Congress, Metacritic, Metal detector, Metal umlaut, Metallica, Metallica (album), MGM Home Entertainment, Michael McKean, Mike McCready, Mike Mills, Mime artist, Misfits (band), Mockumentary, Mr. Burns, Music video, N-diaeresis, National Film Registry, Ned Flanders, Newsweek, Nigel Tufnel, Nirvana (band), NJ.com, Ozzy Osbourne, Patrick Macnee, Paul Benedict, Paul Shaffer, Paul Shortino, Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam Twenty, Pete Townshend, Polydor Records, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Principal Skinner, Q (magazine), QuickTime, Quiet Riot, R.E.M., Rare Bird, Ratt, RealNetworks, Ric Parnell, Richard D. Titus, Rob Reiner, Robbin Crosby, Robert Bauer, Robert Leighton (film editor), Robert Plant, Rock in a Hard Place, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Rotten Tomatoes, Royal Albert Hall, Rudy Sarzo, Russ Kunkel, Sandy Helberg, Satire, School of Rock, Short film, Singles (1992 film), Smell the Glove, Spin (magazine), Spinal Tap (band), Spinal Tap discography, Spontaneous human combustion, Steven Tyler, Stone Gossard, Stonehenge, StudioCanal, The Big Picture (1989 film), The Criterion Collection, The Edge, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, The Last Waltz, The Loud House, The New York Times, The Otto Show, The Rutles, The Simpsons, The Song Remains the Same (film), Time Out Group, Tony Hendra, Total Film, Turner Classic Movies, U2, United States Air Force, Universal Music Group, Up to eleven, Uriah Heep (band), Venom (band), VHS, Victoria Tennant, Victory Tischler-Blue, Video, Vivendi, Voyager Company, Waiting for Guffman, Waylon Smithers, White City, London, White City: A Novel, Wonderful Smith, Yoga, Zane Buzby. Expand index (150 more) »

A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades.

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A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica is a two-part documentary about the process of making the Metallica album (or "The Black Album"), and the following tour.

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Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funniest movies in American cinema.

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All You Need Is Cash

All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called the Rutles.

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Altadena, California

Altadena is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately 14 miles (23 km) from the downtown Los Angeles Civic Center, and directly north of the city of Pasadena, California.

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AMC (TV channel)

AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by it namesake AMC Networks.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Written by Steven Blush, American Hardcore: A Tribal History is a journalistic book that relates the history of the hardcore punk movement that took place in Northern America between 1980 and 1986.

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Andrew J. Lederer

Andrew J. Lederer is a New York-based comedian who has also starred in low-budget movies and worked in writing and production.

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Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, and former fashion model.

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Anvil (band)

Anvil are a Canadian heavy metal band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 1978.

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a 2008 rockumentary film about the Canadian heavy metal band Anvil.

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Archie Hahn (actor)

Archie Hahn (sometimes credited as Archie Hahn III, born November 1, 1941) is an American character actor and improviser best known for his appearances on the British version of Whose Line is it Anyway? and the 1988 movie Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach.

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Astrology

Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.

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Atomic Rooster

Atomic Rooster are a British rock band, originally formed by members of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, organist Vincent Crane and drummer Carl Palmer.

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Audio commentary

An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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Automat Pictures

Automat Pictures is an entertainment production company based in Los Angeles.

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Back from the Dead (Spinal Tap album)

Back from the Dead is the third studio album by Spinal Tap, though it is the fourteenth when including their fictional albums.

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Bad News (band)

Bad News were an English spoof heavy metal band, created for the Channel 4 television series The Comic Strip Presents....

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Behind the Music

Behind the Music is a documentary television series on VH1.

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Best in Show (film)

Best in Show is a 2000 American mockumentary comedy film co-written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy and directed by Guest.

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Big in Japan (phrase)

Big in Japan is an expression historically used to describe western based musical groups who achieve success in Japan but not necessarily in other parts of the world.

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Billy Crystal

William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)On page 17 of his book 700 Sundays, Crystal displays his birth announcement, which gives his first two names as "William Edward", not "William Jacob" is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and television host.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Brad Whitford

Bradley Ernest Whitford (born February 23, 1952)Putterford, Mark (1991) The Fall and Rise of Aerosmith, Omnibus Press, Strong, Martin C. (2001) The Great Metal Discography (2nd edn.), MOJO Books,, p. 11-13 is an American musician who is best known for serving as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith.

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Break Like the Wind

Break Like the Wind is a 1992 album by the semi-fictional band Spinal Tap.

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Bruno Kirby

Bruno Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr.; April 28, 1949 – August 14, 2006) was an American actor, singer, voice artist, chef, and comedian.

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CB4

CB4 is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Tamra Davis and starring Chris Rock.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.

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Charles Levin (actor)

Charles Levin (born March 12, 1949) is an American actor who has appeared in television and movies and on stage.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Christopher Guest

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), usually simply known as Christopher Guest, is a British-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship.

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Cinéma vérité

Cinéma vérité ("truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking, invented by Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda and influenced by Robert Flaherty’s films.

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Concert film

A concert film or concert movie, is a type of documentary film, the subject of which is an extended live performance or concert by either a musician or a stand-up comedian.

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Concert tour

A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations.

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Condition Critical

Condition Critical is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Dana Carvey

Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, who is most widely known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1986–1993) and for starring as Garth Algar in the Wayne's World films.

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Danny Kortchmar

Daniel Kortchmar (born April 6, 1946) is an American guitarist, session musician, producer and songwriter.

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Dave Grohl

David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film director.

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David St. Hubbins

David Ivor St.

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Dee Snider

Daniel "Dee" Snider (born March 15, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor.

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Derek Smalls

Derek Albion Smalls is a fictional character played by Harry Shearer in the spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap.

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Dokken

Dokken is an American metal band formed in 1979.

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Dont Look Back

Look Back is a 1967 American documentary film by D. A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England.

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Dotted and dotless I

Dotted İi and dotless Iı are separate letters in Turkish and Azerbaijani.

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Double-sided disk

In computer science, a double-sided disk is a disk of which both sides are used to store data.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Ed Begley Jr.

Edward James Begley Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor.

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Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III; December 23, 1964) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and one of three guitarists of the American rock band Pearl Jam.

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Embassy Pictures

Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as AVCO Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio responsible for such films as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge, The Night Porter, Phantasm, The Fog, Prom Night, Scanners, The Howling, Escape from New York, and This Is Spinal Tap.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Fear of a Black Hat

Fear of a Black Hat is a 1993 American mockumentary film on the evolution and state of American hip hop music.

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Feral House

Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey.

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Flower power

Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology.

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For Your Consideration (film)

For Your Consideration is a 2006 comedy film directed by Christopher Guest.

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Fran Drescher

Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress and activist.

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Fred Willard

Frederick Charles Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor and writer, best known for his improvisational comedy.

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George Lynch (musician)

George Lynch (born September 28, 1954) is an American hard rock guitarist and songwriter.

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George Petros

George Lawrence Petros (born January 11, 1955) is an American art designer, author, editor, interviewer and illustrator.

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Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced

Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced is a 2000 Norwegian mockumentary about a fictional boy band called Boyzvoice.

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Gimme Shelter (1970 film)

Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert.

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Glenn Danzig

Glenn Danzig (born Glenn Allen Anzalone; June 23, 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician from Lodi, New Jersey.

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Groupie

The term Groupie is a slang word in reference to a fan of a particular musician, celebrity, or musical group who follows this person or band around while they're on tour or who attends as many of their public appearances as possible, usually in hopes of getting to know them more.

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GTR (album)

GTR is the 1986 self-titled debut album and sole official studio release from the short-lived supergroup GTR.

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GTR (band)

GTR were a British rock band founded in 1985 by former Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses, often abbreviated as GNR, is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Harry Shearer

Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer.

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Heartbreak Hotel

"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Henry Rollins

Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.

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Howard Hesseman

Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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It Might Get Loud

It Might Get Loud is a 2008 American documentary film by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim.

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J. D. Considine

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

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James Hetfield

James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica.

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Jeff Ament

Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963) is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam.

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Jerry Cantrell

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter for the rock band Alice in Chains.

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Jim Marshall (businessman)

James Charles Marshall, OBE (29 July 1923 – 5 April 2012) known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Joe Franklin

Joe Franklin (March 9, 1926 – January 24, 2015), born Joseph Fortgang, was an American radio and television host personality, author and actor from New York City.

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Joyce Hyser

Joyce Hyser (born December 20, 1957) is an American actress.

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Julie Payne (actress, born 1946)

Julie Kathleen Payne (born September 11, 1946) is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting.

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June Chadwick

June Chadwick (born 30 November 1951, Warwickshire) is an English film and television actress.

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Karen Murphy (producer)

Karen Murphy is an American film producer.

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Kent Beyda

Kent Beyda (born 1953) is an American film editor.

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Lara Cody

Laura Ann Cody (born September 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, California), better known as Lara Cody, is an American voice actress.

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Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich (born December 26, 1963) is a Danish musician, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Metal detector

A metal detector is an electronic instrument which detects the presence of metal nearby.

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Metal umlaut

A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, The Accüsed and Mötley Crüe.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Metallica (album)

Metallica (commonly known as The Black Album) is the self-titled fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica.

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MGM Home Entertainment

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC is the home video arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Michael McKean

Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, and musician, known for a variety of roles played since the 1980s.

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Mike McCready

Michael David "Mike" McCready (born April 5, 1966) is an American musician who serves as the lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam.

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Mike Mills

Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments.

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Mime artist

A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor") is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.

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Misfits (band)

The Misfits are an American punk rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery.

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Mockumentary

A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.

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Mr. Burns

Charles Montgomery Burns, a.k.a. Monty Burns, commonly referred to simply as Mr.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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N-diaeresis

"N̈", or "n̈" (referred to as n-diaeresis or n-umlaut) is a grapheme from several minor extended Latin alphabets, the letter N with a diaeresis mark.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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Ned Flanders

Nedward "Ned" Flanders Jr., usually referred to as Flanders, is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nigel Tufnel

Nigel Tufnel is a fictional character in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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NJ.com

NJ.com is a digital news content provider and website in New Jersey owned by Advance Publications.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (also known as The Prince of Darkness) (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Patrick Macnee

Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was an English film and television actor.

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Paul Benedict

Paul Benedict (September 17, 1938 – December 1, 2008) was an American actor who made numerous appearances in television and movies beginning in 1965.

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Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).

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Paul Shortino

Paul Shortino (born May 14, 1953) is an American rock singer and musician who has sung for several bands, including Rough Cutt/The Cutt, Quiet Riot, Bad Boyz, and Shortino.

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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.

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Pearl Jam Twenty

Pearl Jam Twenty (also known as PJ20) is a 2011 American rockumentary directed by Cameron Crowe about the band Pearl Jam.

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Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is a 2016 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone and written, produced by and starring Andy Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone.

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Principal Skinner

Principal W. Seymour Skinner (born Armin Tamzarian) is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity.

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Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Rare Bird

Rare Bird were an English progressive rock band, formed in 1969.

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Ratt

Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s, with their albums having been certified as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum by the RIAA.

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RealNetworks

RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet streaming media delivery software and services based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Ric Parnell

Richard "Ric" J. Parnell (born 13 August 1951, London) is an English rock drummer.

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Richard D. Titus

Richard D. Titus, FRSA (born March 23, 1968) is a technology executive, an entrepreneur and film producer.

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Rob Reiner

Robert Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, and activist.

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Robbin Crosby

Robbinson Lantz Crosby (August 4, 1959 – June 6, 2002) was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the US in the 1980s.

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Robert Bauer

Robert F. Bauer (born February 22, 1952) is an American attorney who previously served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama.

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Robert Leighton (film editor)

Robert Leighton is a British film and television editor with more than 30 feature film credits since 1980.

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Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Rock in a Hard Place

Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released on August 1, 1982 by Columbia Records.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Rudy Sarzo

Rudy Sarzo (born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont, November 18, 1950) is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist.

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Russ Kunkel

Russell Kunkel (born September 27, 1948) is an American drummer and producer who has worked as a session musician with many well-known artists, including Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, Stephen Stills, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Joe Walsh, Neil Diamond, Glenn Frey, and Carly Simon.

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Sandy Helberg

Sandy Helberg (born May 28, 1949) is a German-born American actor.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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School of Rock

School of Rock is a 2003 comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Mike White.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Singles (1992 film)

Singles is a 1992 American romantic comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, and Matt Dillon.

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Smell the Glove

Smell the Glove is the name of a fictional album by the mock heavy-metal band Spın̈al Tap featured in the 1984 film This Is Spın̈al Tap.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Spinal Tap (band)

Spinal Tap (stylized as Spın̈al Tap, with a dotless letter ''i'' and a metal umlaut over the ''n'') is a parody band spoofing the style of rock heavy metal groups.

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Spinal Tap discography

The semi-fictitious rock band Spinal Tap has released three albums in addition to several bootleg compilations that have been compiled by fans.

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Spontaneous human combustion

Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a term encompassing reported cases of the combustion of a living (or very recently deceased) human body without an apparent external source of ignition.

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Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler (born Steven Victor Tallarico; March 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and former television music competition judge.

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Stone Gossard

Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 20, 1966) is an American musician who serves as the rhythm and additional lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam.

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.

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StudioCanal

StudioCanal (formerly known as Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ Production, and Canal+ Image) is a Franco-British film production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world.

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The Big Picture (1989 film)

The Big Picture is 1989 American comedy film starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Christopher Guest.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.

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The Edge

David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known by his stage name the Edge (or just Edge),McCormick (2006), pp.

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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London, England for an audience of 72,000.

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The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

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The Loud House

The Loud House is an American animated television series created by animator and comic illustrator Chris Savino for Nickelodeon.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Otto Show

"The Otto Show" is the twenty-second episode of The Simpsons' third season.

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The Rutles

The Rutles are a rock band known for their visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Song Remains the Same (film)

The Song Remains the Same is a 1976 concert film featuring the English rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Time Out Group

Time Out Group is a British media company which is publisher of magazines and travel guidebooks covering events, entertainment and culture in cities around the world.

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Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra (born 10 July 1941) is an English satirist, actor and writer who has worked mostly in the United States.

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Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004 which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Up to eleven

"Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knob is marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.

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Uriah Heep (band)

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969.

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Venom (band)

Venom are an English extreme metal band formed in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Victoria Tennant

Victoria Tennant (born September 30, 1950) is an English film and television actress.

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Victory Tischler-Blue

Victory Tischler-Blue (born September 16, 1959) is an American film producer, director, writer, musician and photographer.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Vivendi

Vivendi SA is a French mass media conglomerate headquartered in Paris.

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Voyager Company

The Voyager Company was a pioneer in CD-ROM production in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Waiting for Guffman

Waiting for Guffman is a 1997 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed by Christopher Guest.

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Waylon Smithers

Waylon J. Smithers Jr., usually referred to as Mr.

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White City, London

White City is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and forms the northern part of Shepherd's Bush.

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White City: A Novel

White City: A Novel is a solo concept album by English musician Pete Townshend of rock band the Who.

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Wonderful Smith

Wonderful Smith (June 21, 1911 – August 28, 2008) was an African-American comedian and actor from Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

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Yoga

Yoga (Sanskrit, योगः) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.

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Zane Buzby

Zane Buzby is an American Television Director, Philanthropist, and Film Director.

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References

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