When I was 12 someone loaned me a VHS of 1980s documentary Spinal Tap. However, Spinal Tap isn’t a documentary, it’s a ‘mockumentary’. No-one told me. I was just getting into music, and when I pushed the chunky cassette into our VHS player I seriously believed I was about to watch a documentary about an iconic American rock band called Spinal Tap.
I hated it and turned off after about ten minutes, not understanding what I was watching. When I later revisited Spinal Tap as an adult I think a bit of wee came out during the ‘Stone Henge’ scene. Viewed in the correct context, it’s seminal comedy.
