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.

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 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.

; Assaulting an officer of the court: This offence is created by section 14 ( 1 )( b ) of the County Courts Act 1984.

* 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy.

In Paul Allen ’ s biography, Ayckbourn is briefly compared to Dafydd and Guy in A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ).

However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

* 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

The Amstrad CPC ( short for Colour Personal Computer ) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

An article written in 1984 by L. R. Ember, and published in Chemical Engineering News, is considered one of the most exhaustive and authoritative accounts of the controversy surrounding the use of trichothecene mycotoxins in Southeast Asia during the 1970s.

Examples include Oshii Mamoru ’ s 1984 animated film Beautiful Dreamer, which is based on an episode of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura ( 1978-1987 ) that depicts the baku as a tapir.

The current book was published in 1984, and is currently under revision.

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

The USA is the only Western country that does not distinguish sludge-source compost from green-composts, and by default in the USA 50 % of states expect composts to comply in some manner with the federal EPA 503 rule promulgated in 1984 for sludge products.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well ( though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones ).

1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.

* The standard biography about Christine de Pizan is Charity Cannon Willard ’ s Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works ( 1984 ).

One such fatal poison is secretly administered by the Harkonnens to Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of House Atreides, in order to keep Hawat's allegiance as the only provider of the antidote ( in the 1984 movie version, it is shown that Hawat has to milk a gruesome captive cat for the antidote every day ).

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 >

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.