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.

In the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spontaneous Human Combustion is included as the cause of death of one of the band's numerous former drummers.

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.

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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.

* The 1984 Frederick Forsyth novel The Fourth Protocol features an elderly Kim Philby's involvement in a plot to trigger a nuclear explosion in Britain.

His Icehenge ( 1984 ) also features a Mars in process of terraforming.

It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old " Northern loop " track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains.

Typical stylistic features of proverbs ( as Shirley Arora points out in her article, The Perception of Proverbiality ( 1984 )) are:

* David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees ( 1984, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano / synthesizers on 3 tracks )

* The 1984 game Realm of Impossibility features levels which largely involve impossible objects.

Launched in 1984, it features games, pony rides, and entertainment, and is the school's only public fundraiser for local scholarships.

The town features in the 1973 John Betjeman ( 1906 – 1984 ) documentary Metro-land about the growth of suburban London in the 20th century.

Martin later expanded on this as an extended suite for McCartney's 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street, which features a very recognizable hommage to Herrmann's score for Psycho.

An accompanying booklet features Jarmusch's 1984 essay " Some Notes on Stranger Than Paradise " as well as critical commentary by Geoff Andrew and J. Hoberman on Stranger Than Paradise and by Luc Sante on Permanent Vacation.

The first native VAX UNIX product from DEC was Ultrix-32, based on 4. 2BSD with some non-kernel features from System V, and was released in June 1984.

** Late 1984 The Touch-tone Trimline phone is heavily modified with the following new features:

Octel's voice-mail system, was introduced in 1984, included unique system features, many of which were patented, which gave Octel market leadership.

* The soundtrack to Giorgio Moroder's 1984 restoration of Fritz Lang's 1926 classic Metropolis features Benatar performing two versions of the movie's love song " Here's My Heart "

Perceptual and functional features, topographic organization, informativeness and intercorrelations are areas of decreased functioning in disorders of semantic memory ( Warrington and Shallice, 1984 ).

The programme began in 1984 and ended in 1987 ; the third, fourth and fifth batches were during this period produced with the same features.

With Green Lantern # 172 ( Jan. 1984 ), Gibbons joined new writer Len Wein on the main feature while continuing to illustrate the backup features.

Historian Robert Wistrich addressed the issue in a 1984 lecture delivered in the home of Israeli President Chaim Herzog, in which he argued that a " new anti-Semitic anti-Zionism " was emerging, distinguishing features of which were the equation of Zionism with Nazism and the belief that Zionists had actively collaborated with Nazis during World War II.

* Arthur Hiller's 1984 comedy-drama Teachers features Little Big Man cast member Richard Mulligan partially reprising his Custer role as Herbert Gower, an outpatient from a mental institution who is accidentally put in charge of a U. S. History class and teaches his pupils while impersonating historical figures such as Custer, but also Abe Lincoln and Ben Franklin amongst others.

His retelling of the Arthur legend, Firelord in 1980, Beloved Exile in 1984 and The Last Rainbow in 1985, is set in the 5th century during the collapse of the Roman empire, and his reinterpretation of Robin Hood ( Sherwood, 1991, and Robin and the King, 1993 ) takes place during the Norman conquest and features kings William the Conqueror and William Rufus as major characters.

Important roles in major films were relatively few, however, and her acting career diminished during the 1980s, with most of her appearances being in minor European features or American films that fizzled at the box office, such as Lassiter ( 1984 ), Once Bitten ( 1985 ), and Guilty as Charged ( 1992 ).

* Federico Fellini's 1984 And the Ship Sails On features a scene in which a male opera singer hypnotises a chicken in the mess hall.

Two Special Edition versions of the Z31 generation model were produced ; a 50th Anniversary Edition celebrated the company's semi-centennial in 1984 and boasted additional luxury features, and a " Shiro Special ", released 4 years later, boasted performance-oriented upgrades.

This song was begun in March 1984 and features some very low vocals by Mercury.