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Hello Cleveland...again! Welcome back Spinal Tap...

Shaun marks the return of the best ever fictional rock band, Spinal Tap, on the day their new movie is released.

In 1984, 'This is Spinal Tap' encapsulated everything ridiculous about huge British rock bands on tour. The film, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer, managed to capture the awful whiff of toe-curling behaviour, on-and-off stage antics, song titles and character traits of the some of the. rock world's worst offenders. Legend has it that Spinal Tap was originally based on an amalgam of bands, from Yes to Black Sabbath to Saxon, Emerson Lake and Palmer and beyond - but no one knows for sure exactly who.

Now, 'Spinal Tap 2 - The End Continues' picks up on the story, forty years later. On the show this time - we'll hear Shaun chatting to some of the band about their latest screen exposé and how they managed to rope Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John into their rock reunion.

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57 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Sep 202523:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Led Zeppelin

    The Wanton Song (Remaster)

    • Physical Graffiti (Deluxe Edition).
    • Atlantic Records.

  • Feeder

    Feel It Again (XXV Remix)

    • Feel It Again (XXV Remix).
    • Echo.

  • Extreme

    Play With Me

    • Extreme.
    • A&M Records.

  • Biffy Clyro

    Hunting Season

    • Hunting Season.
    • Warner Records.
    • 1.

  • Black Sabbath

    Children of the Sea (2008 Remaster)

    • Heaven and Hell (2008 Remaster).
    • Rhino/Warner Records.

  • The Who

    New Song (Pete Vocal Version)

    • New Song (Pete Vocal Version).
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).

  • System of a Down

    Aerials

    • Toxicity.
    • American/Columbia.

  • Def Leppard

    Animal (Radio 2 In The Park 2025)

  • Spinal Tap

    Stonehenge (feat. Elton John)

    • Stonehenge (with Elton John).
    • Interscope Records.

  • Robert Plant

    Chevrolet

    • Nonesuch.

  • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

    Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll

    • Tom Petty And The Heatbreakers.
    • Tom Petty P&D.
    • 5.

  • Link Wray & His Raymen

    Rumble

    • Cadence.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Sep 202523:00
    BBC Radio 2