" Contagious " was the album's second and last single, and was also available as a free playable track in the iPhone and iPod Touch game Tap Tap Revenge 2.

It is a playable track in the video game Rock Band 2, and a downloadable track for the video game Guitar Hero 5 and the iPod touch application Tap Tap Revenge.

* The final version of the song " Texas " is a playable track for the game Tap Tap Revenge 3.

It is a playable track on the iOS games Tap Tap Revenge and Tap Tap Dance, and was sampled for the video game DJ Hero.

Later, the songs " Birthright " and " Switchback " were included in the list of Hard and Extreme Mode songs respectively for the popular iPhone OS game Tap Tap Revenge.

* Tap Tap Revenge, a video game

" Helena " is also available as downloadable content for the video games Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Tap Tap Revenge.

" Fa-Fa-Fa " is also featured as a free premium track on the iPhone / iPod Touch game Tap Tap Revenge 3.

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 concert was originally released in VHS form ( usually in two tape releases worldwide ), but due to time limitations, the last two songs by Extreme, the first two of Def Leppard, and the song of Spinal Tap " The Majesty of Rock " were deleted ( along with Robert Plant's " Innuendo ") in the original release.

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.

Glenn Danzig had a similar reaction when comparing Spinal Tap to his former band The Misfits saying, " When I first saw Spinal Tap, I was like, ' Hey, this is my old band.

The Colony provided facilities and inspiration to over 1500 artists, and produced performances by New York city based artists who resided there: Paul Zaloom, Charles Moore African Dancers, Sachiyo Ito Japanese Dance, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eiko & Koma, Gail Conrad Tap Dance, the Chinese Acrobats of Taipei, the Brubecks, and many more, as well as the first US International Conference on Theatre Anthropology featuring key speakers Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, and Edith Turner.

The settlement was first known as Big Sandy Switch because a stretch of the Texas and Pacific Railroad was built through the area and eventually intersected with a narrow-gauge railroad called the Tyler Tap.

Tap dancer Arthur Duncan became the first African-American to appear regularly on a sponsored television variety program when he was hired as a permanent music maker by Welk in 1964.

Lord and Simper's connection to this pop band was later lampooned in the fake rock documentary, Spinal Tap, whose fictional first hit was called "( Listen to the ) Flower People ", a reference to " Let's Go to San Francisco ".

In 1932, Canutt's first son Edward Clay was born and nicknamed ' Tap ', short for Tapadero, a Spanish word for a stirrup covering.

The first gig was the Tap ' n ' Tin club in Chatham, Kent, the second at the strummerville stage at Glastonbury and the third on Alan Mcgee's TV show, Death Disco TV.

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.

He first gained recognition in 1983, when he played a leading role in the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid.

^ " Bloomberg credits The Bond Buyer for reporting facts first, 6th paragraph: New Jersey Seeks Adviser on Plan to Tap $ 1 Billion of Unspent Bond Funds ".

He played the character " Duke Fame " in the classic film This Is Spinal Tap, and reprised this role in the first webisode done by Las Vegas, Nevada-based group Sin City Sinners.

Spinal Tap ( officially spelled with a dotless letter " i " but a " metal umlaut " over the " n ") is a parody heavy metal band that first appeared on a failed 1979 ABC TV sketch comedy pilot called " The T. V.

" In his review of the SACD version of the album for the Music Tap website, Robert Olsen described the album as " a compilation album featuring some of the better known recordings from the first 4 albums.

Eduardo Corrochio ( 1869 – 1912 ) was a Spanish-born dancer who won the first Tap Dancing Championship in New York City in 1890.

All three had previously worked together on comedy projects involving musical parody, including the Lenny and the Squigtones LP and a television pilot, The TV Show, which marked the first appearance of Spinal Tap.

The Tap Tap franchise ultimately generated 15 million downloads and received a Guinness World Record as the " most popular iPhone game series ".

* According to game makers, Pluto will be featured in the upcoming iPhone game Astro Boy: Tap Tap Rush

This series of work began with the film This Is Spinal Tap, where his character introduces the phrase " but this ones goes up to eleven ".

Despite losing their drummer Mick Shrimpton ( R. J. Parnell ) as he inexplicably explodes onstage, the film ends with Spinal Tap playing a series of sold-out arena shows for enthusiastic fans on their Japanese tour.

During this time, he also released a video follow up to Spinal Tap, played the villainous Mr. Dittmeyer in The Brady Bunch Movie, and played the boss Gibby in the HBO series Dream On.

Temple of the Dog performed " Hunger Strike " on October 3, 1991 at the Foundations Forum in Los Angeles, California ; a three-song set on October 6, 1991 at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood for the RIP Magazine 5th anniversary party ( Temple of the Dog played after secret headlining act Spinal Tap ); and " Hunger Strike " on both August 14, 1992 at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston, Virginia and September 13, 1992 at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Irvine, California ( both shows were part of the Lollapalooza festival series in 1992 ).

It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years including: Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blue Thunder, Breathless, This is Spinal Tap, Hit the Booty Do, In the Line of Fire, Nick of Time, True Lies, Midnight Madness, Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Moby Dick, The Fantastic Journey and was destroyed ( via special effects ) in Escape from LA and Epicenter.

Two notable " featured players " on the show included writer Al Franken and ( for Season 5 ) Harry Shearer, who later acted in several films ( including This is Spinal Tap ) and television series, including The Simpsons.

* There are a number of references to Spinal Tap in the television series Supernatural.

Tap Sonic is a spin-off of the DJMax series for the iOS and Android mobile platforms by Neowiz Internet in partnership with Pentavision.

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 2000 comedy Best in Show, made by some of the same actors from This is Spinal Tap, was also done as a mockumentary, this time of various contestants at a fictional dog show.

The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.

The river was then known to local Native Americans as ' Tap Teel ', although the area has been inhabited since prehistory.

The outstanding success of the animated film, Happy Feet, has further reinforced the popular appeal National Tap Dance Day in the United States, now celebrated May 25, was signed into law by President George Bush on November 7, 1989.

The event was heavily fictionalized in the 1948 movie Tap Roots.

In 2002, This Is Spinal Tap was deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant " by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry.

This Is Spinal Tap was only a modest success upon its initial release.

In 2002, This Is Spinal Tap was deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant " by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Reiner admits " when Spinal Tap initially came out, everybody thought it was a real band ... the reason it did go over everybody's head was that it was very close to home " ( qtd.

When Pete mentions an incident where his drummer complained that " the caviar in their dressing room was the wrong viscosity-for throwing ," the friend notes " This is Spinal Tap is obviously a true story.

Earlier in that tour, backstage at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Show, Metallica met with Spinal Tap and discussed how their " black album " was an homage to Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove.

On March 22, 2006, while Harry Shearer was being interviewed on the Opie and Anthony Radio Show about Spinal Tap, he stated the following: " Well, Michael McKean had been in a band called ' The Left Banke '.

George Starkweather's grandson, Karl Hillmer Starkweather ( who changed his name from Karl Starkweather Hillmer ), was a respected and lifelong Plymouth resident and local historian, and Ford Motor Company employee at the Wilcox Lake Tap Plant in which he was shop steward.

Referenced in Ken Burns ' monumental documentary The Civil War ; Knight's rebellion was also dramatized in the 1948 motion picture Tap Roots ( based on the book of the same name ), where in a few exterior scenes there are prominent mountains in the background – which do not exist in Mississippi.