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.

The 1983 Comic Strip Presents ... film Bad News Tour was a spoof rockumentary about a British heavy metal band.

Some of them include Cameron Crowe's 1996 blockbuster film Jerry Maguire, U2's 1988 rockumentary Rattle and Hum, The Rolling Stones ' 1983 concert film Let's Spend the Night Together, 1976's A Star is Born, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, the Coen Brothers 1987 film Raising Arizona, and the 1980 film Used Cars.

* Elvis Presley performs the song as part of a medley with " Little Sister " in the rockumentary film That's the Way It Is ( 1970 ).

The band was also the subject of a concert film made by former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and a rockumentary Not Bad for a Girl.

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.

" Reviewing the film for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw called it ' the best rockumentary yet ' and said that ' the most likeable thing about this very likable film is the way it promotes Wilko Johnson as a 100-1 shot for the title of Greatest Living Englishman.

A portion of British rock band Oasis's rockumentary film " Lord Don't Slow Me Down " was filmed at Red Rocks.

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

The Filth and the Fury is a 2000 rockumentary film about the Sex Pistols directed by Julien Temple.

In 2006, Stewart Copeland made a rockumentary about the band called Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, based on Super-8 filming he did when the band was touring and recording in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

Lonely Boy was one of the earliest examples of a rockumentary and was parodied in the comedy This is Spinal Tap.

The band carried on touring into 1992 releasing single " Welcome to the Cheap Seats " ( UK No. 8 ) in February, which was also to be the title of their rockumentary released on video that spring and filmed over eighteen months on the road with the band.

" Twisted Issues " was originally intended to be a punk rockumentary featuring Gainesville bands, but the inclusion of writers Steve Antczak and Hawk ( James C. Bassett ) to the mix added the horror, element to the story, featuring a so-called Death Skater who kills characters played by members of the aforementioned bands after they inadvertently kill him.

The band was featured prominently in the rockumentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years.

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

Moderatto emulates the 1984 mock rockumentary directed by Rob Reiner This Is Spınal Tap and big ' 80s bands like Mötley Crüe and Poison with their style and clothing.

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues titled The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single " Respect Yourself ", promoted by a Spinal Tap – like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of him performing at famous events including Woodstock.

Meeting People Is Easy, first released on 30 November 1998, is a rockumentary by Grant Gee following British alternative rock band Radiohead on their exhaustive world tour following the success of their 1997 album OK Computer.

In 2008, he got involved in the musical movement of spreading awareness about current slavery and human trafficking by performing a live version of " World " for the rockumentary, Call + Response.

The term rockumentary is a neologism denoting a documentary about rock music or its musicians.

Soon after, Brad Roberts ' long-awaited double-live CD and rockumentary entitled Crash Test Dude were made available through MapleMusic.

He moved to CITY-TV in 1985 becoming co-host and eventually producer of the The NewMusic, the internationally syndicated, pioneering weekly rockumentary show that pre-dated MTV and later gave rise to MuchMusic.

The show fused international field journalism and in-depth interviews with rock videos to create an occasionally tough rockumentary newsmagazine geared at 15 to 30 year-olds.

In the autumn of 1988, The Saw Doctors filmed a rockumentary on a flat-bed truck while driving between Galway and Salthill.

In a later interview for the rockumentary Westway to the World, he apologised about his addiction and speculated that had he not been asked to leave The Clash the band might have lasted longer and might possibly still be together.

He also lamented the fact that the best known Clash line-up had been considering a reunion at the time of Strummer's death, after the positive reunion during the Westway to the World rockumentary.

** The rockumentary Another State of Mind is released.

Clips from this video appeared on the 1991 rockumentary YesYears.

In the film Lemmy he speaks briefly of having another son by an unnamed woman.

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks.

Lemmy appears in the film and shouts out ( truthfully ) that he edited his school magazine as other people in the crowd admit geeky pastimes in their youth.

Lemmy made an appearance in the music videos for the 1986 Boys Don't Cry song " I Wanna Be A Cowboy " and the 1998 Rap song " Freak of the Week " by adult film star Ron Jeremy.

Lemmy has a cameo role in the film ‘’ Down and Out with the Dolls ’’ ( Kurt Voss 2001 ).

Lemmy also appears briefly, but with some confiding words, in the Penelope Spheeris film " The Decline of the Western Civilization, Part II ".

Set in modern-day Manhattan, the film begins with the narrator ( Lemmy of Motörhead ) introducing two families: the Capulets and the Ques.

Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution ( Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution ) is a 1965 black-and-white French science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

As an archetypal American private eye anti-hero in trench-coat and weathered visage, Lemmy Caution's old-fashioned machismo conflicts with the puritanical computer ( Godard originally wanted to title the film Tarzan versus IBM ).

Alpha 60 converses with Lemmy Caution several times throughout the film, and its voice is seemingly ever-present in the city, serving as a sort of narrator.

The film showcased Stanley's unique visual style and incorporated his music video roots by including cameos by musicians Iggy Pop, Carl McCoy and Lemmy.

The film stars Al Pillay, and Nosher Powell as the secretary of state as well as a number of cameos, including Miranda Richardson and Nigel Planer as vile DHSS clerks, Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall as a union boss, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Jennifer Saunders, Jimmy Fagg, Kathy Burke, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Bill Wyman, Jools Holland, Hugh Cornwell, Adrian Edmondson, Angela Bowie, and Lemmy.

Such fight scenes had been important to the popular success in France of the Lemmy Caution film series.

The song " Eat the Rich " was written for Peter Richardson's 1987 film Eat the Rich which starred the regular cast of The Comic Strip and Lemmy himself in a bit part as " Spider.

He became well known for a series of French B movies in which he played secret agent Lemmy Caution and is now best remembered for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's philosophical science fiction film Alphaville ( 1965 ).

The title track was used in the movie Tromeo and Juliet, a film in which Lemmy appears.

Originally written by Lemmy for the German band Skew Siskin, it plays over the opening credits of the film Airheads in which Lemmy makes a cameo appearance.

In Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 dystopian science fiction film Alphaville, protagonist Lemmy Caution dismisses a taxi driver's offer of route options to his destination by stating that he is on " a journey to the end of the night ".