"Yes, Spinal Tap is a group of actors playing characters. If that were a disqualifying factor, how then to explain Robert Zimmerman playing 'Bob Dylan,' John Graham Mellor playing 'Joe Strummer,' or the guy from Animal Collective playing 'Panda Bear'? Rock and roll has always been a costume drama, a comedy, and more then occasionally a minstrel show. The 'realness' of a given band could not be a more ludicrous criterion for taking their measure."
Timothy Bracy and Elizabeth Nelson at NPR analyze the 1984 soundtrack to This Is Spinal Tap on Nigel Tufnel Day.
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