David Kaff, the actor who played Viv Savage, Spinal Tap’s keyboard player in the film of the same name, has died aged 79.
Prior to being cast as the laid-back musician in the 1984 film, Kaff (born Kaffinetti) had a moderately successful musical career himself. He was a member of Rare Bird, a British prog band whose most famous song was Sympathy. A minor hit in 1970, it reached Number One in France and Italy that year and was later a hit single for the post-Fish Marillion in 1992.
