Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap features the fictional band members Derek Smalls, David St. Hubbins, and Nigel Tufnel attempting a version of the song at Presley's grave.

The term was used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast, and by Rob Reiner in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

The film also draws from Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap which Robbins states is one of his favorite films, and directly references this during the scene in which Roberts gets lost in an auditorium attempting to find the stage before his performance.

The Shmenge Brothers were the subjects of the 1984 mockumentary The Last Polka.

He had a cameo as Ronnie Pudding ( Spinal Tap's bass player in their early years ) in the " Gimme Some Money " video segment of the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

Later the band became the fictional subject of the 1984 rockumentary / mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

The mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 ) features a vignette in which the band discusses the possibility of composing a rock opera about Jack the Ripper's life, called Saucy Jack.

The volume control of the iPlayer goes up to 11, apparently a nod to a scene about an amplifier volume control that goes up to eleven in the 1984 rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

Other notable examples include Nazareth's version of " Love Hurts " ( 1975 ), Foreigner's " I Want to Know What Love Is ( 1984 )", Scorpions " Still Loving You " ( 1984 ), Heart's " What About Love " ( 1985 ), and Whitesnake's " Is This Love " ( 1987 ).

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a satirical rockumentary about a band called Spinal Tap.

In 1984, while promoting the film This Is Spinal Tap, Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean had a performance on Saturday Night Live.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap.

They released three albums: This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 ), Break Like the Wind ( 1992 ) and Back From The Dead ( 2009 ).< ref >

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

* TASS Is Authorized to Declare ... ( 1984 ) Soviet spy film

Sinatra's 1986 recording of " Mack the Knife " from his album L. A. Is My Lady ( 1984 ) includes a homage to some of the song's previous performers, including ' Lady Ella ' herself.

Even as the show ended its run in 1984, the theme is still heard as a car prize cue on The Price Is Right and was used for similar purposes on the late-1980s revival of Card Sharks.

They made another comeback in 1984, and later recorded " Jury and the Judge " with " I Am Hanging on to Love " on B-side, and yet another unreleased song " Time Is a Jetplane " in 1986.

* Chan Is Missing: A Film By Wayne Wang, With Introduction and Screen Notes by Diane Mei Lin Mark ( Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1984 ), ISBN 0-910043-06-X

* Frank Sinatra recorded three studio versions of the song ; the first as a single for Columbia in the 1940s, the second, in 1959 for the album No One Cares, and lastly, in 1984 for the album L. A. Is My Lady.

All You Need Is Cash was one of the first of its kind, inspiration for the Rob Reiner comedy film This Is Spinal Tap in 1984.

This Is Spinal Tap is an American 1984 rock and roll musical mock documentary directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap.

Since its release, This Is Spinal Tap has received universal acclaim from critics and is widely regarded as one of the best films of 1984.

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In 1984, Carvey had a small role in Rob Reiner's film This Is Spinal Tap, in which he played a mime, with fellow comedian Billy Crystal ( who tells him " Mime is money !").

In 1984, the company name was parodied in the rockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap ( whose soundtrack album was distributed by Polydor ), where ' Polymer Records ' was the band's record company.

* This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 )

* Hollywood: The Continental Hyatt Hotel ( now Andaz West Hollywood ) was in the movie Almost Famous starring Kate Hudson ( 2000 ), and its pool has featured in several films including This is Spinal Tap ( 1984 ), and the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City ( now rebranded as InterContinental Hotel ) was the scene of the " 6th floor into swimming pool " scene in the 1989 movie Lethal Weapon 2 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.

Many in the cast and crew were also involved in the films This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 ), Waiting for Guffman ( 1996 ), A Mighty Wind ( 2003 ), and For Your Consideration ( 2006 ).

This image shows the Spinal Tap logo from the 1984 " rockumentary " parody This Is Spinal Tap in which Rob Reiner acted and directed.

* This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 )

All You Need Is Cash was one of the first films of its kind, and an inspiration for the successful Rob Reiner cult comedy This Is Spinal Tap, released in 1984.

Wright was nominated for a Tony Award in 1984 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Tap Dance Kid, and again in 1998 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as the original lead actor for Mufasa in The Lion King, the Broadway version of Disney's animated classic of the same name.

In 1984, he moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he was hired as a professor of psychology and was also appointed to the Walgreen Chair for the Study of Human Understanding.

Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an " outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin "; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his " Human Rights in Soviet Society.

Organized violence includes “ torture, cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ” as in Article 5 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1984 ).

In 1980, the United States Treasury Department coined a half-ounce gold commemorative medal with her likeness, and in 1984 she was the first recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award of the City of New York.

* The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit ( 1984 ).

The Human Comedy was also adapted into a 1984 Broadway musical by Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair, and William Dumaresq.

* J. P. Humphrey, Human Rights and the United Nations: A Great Adventure, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1984.

* John Hall Buchanan, Jr. — Representative of Alabama's 6th Congressional District, U. S. House of Representatives 1965-1981, Member of the United States delegation to the United Nations 1973 and 1984, Member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1978-1980

In 1984, after the confirmation of the etiological agent of AIDS by scientists at the U. S. National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that a vaccine would be available within two years.

The Human Tissue ( Scotland ) Act 2006 – which amended the Anatomy Act 1984 – covers Scotland.

Actors who have portrayed Nathan Zuckerman include Mark Linn-Baker ( in the 1984 television adaptation of The Ghost Writer ) and Gary Sinise ( in the 2003 film adaptation of The Human Stain ).

In 1984, Moroder worked with Philip Oakey of The Human League to make the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder ; which was a UK singles chart hit with " Together in Electric Dreams ", title track to the 1984 film Electric Dreams.

* Iraq 1984 – 1992, Human Rights Watch

The City of Berkeley's Human Relations and Welfare Commission held a public hearing early in 1984 on " Examining the Use of Marriage to Determine Benefits and Liabilities in Berkeley and the Alternatives.

Metal Church had initially got the name while Kurdt Vanderhoof started in the San Francisco scene, but moved back home to Seattle and changed the members of the band, and was one of the most well known metal bands from the 1980s especially because of their albums Metal Church ( 1984 ), The Dark ( 1986 ), Blessing in Disguise ( 1989 ) and The Human Factor ( 1991 ); they resurfaced in 2004 with The Weight of the World.

At an 23 April 1984 press conference in Washington, D. C., Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that Gallo and his co-workers had discovered a virus that is the " probable " cause of AIDS.

The American Convention on Human Rights ( Pacto de San José de Costa Rica ), adopted in 1969 but only ratified by Argentina in 1984 immediately after the end of the National Reorganization Process, restricts abuse of the state of emergency by requiring any signatory nation declaring such a state to inform the other signatories of its circumstances and duration, and what rights are affected.

* Cairns, Jim, Human growth, its source and potential, 1984

*" What Makes Us Human ," Stephen R. Donaldson, ( nv ) F & SF Aug. 1984

" Watching Eternity " and " Human Condition " featured on the 1984 release, were removed and replaced by " Young in Heart " and " Love Doesn't Get Better.

Between this year and 1984, he was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights, where he developed important work on these topics.

* " The Paradoxes of Political Liberty ", The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard University, 1984

His later musicals, however, including Dude and Via Galactica ( both 1973 ) and The Human Comedy ( 1984 ), have not been successful on Broadway.