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Ric Parnell, the British musician best known for playing doomed drummer Mick Shrimpton in Rob Reiner’s cult-classic heavy metal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, has died at age 70.The news was ...
Spinal Tap (stylized as Spın̈al Tap, with a dotless letter i and a metal umlaut over the n) are a fictional English heavy metal band created by the American comedians and musicians of The T.V. Show, who wrote and performed original songs as the band: Michael McKean, as the lead singer and guitarist David St. Hubbins; Christopher Guest, as the guitarist Nigel Tufnel; and Harry Shearer, as the ...
Ric Parnell, our drummer in This is Spinal Tap, passed away today. No one ever rocked harder. — Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) May 2, 2022 The group — fronted by actor-musicians Michael ...
The character of Mick Shrimpton having died in This Is Spinal Tap, Parnell assumed the role of his "twin brother" drummer Ric Shrimpton for the group's appearances subsequent to the film. This continued through the band's 1992 reunion album Break Like the Wind and the associated concert tour. Parnell was not a part of more recent Spinal Tap ...
Harry Shearer as "Derek Smalls" (2019) Derek Albion Smalls is a fictional character played by Harry Shearer in the spoof rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.He is the bassist for mock British heavy metal group Spinal Tap, playing alongside guitarists Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), as well as with a plethora of drummers and keyboardists.
The former drummer of Earth, Wind & Fire died aged 67, ... Having joined the cast of the long-running crime show in 2003, the Irish actor devoted himself to the study of forensics to play his ...
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2023.
Name Age Date Location Cause of death Tabby Thomas: 84: January 1, 2014: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. [1] Thomas Kurzhals Stern-Combo Meißen, Karat: 60 January 2, 2014 Glauchau, Saxony, Germany Liver cirrhosis [2] Jay Traynor Jay and the Americans: 70: January 2, 2014: Tampa, Florida, U.S. Liver cancer [3] Phil Everly The Everly Brothers: 74 ...