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  2. Spinal Tap drummer Ric Parnell dead at age 70 - AOL

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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 ...

  3. Ric Parnell - Wikipedia

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    Spinal Tap became a working band, recording a soundtrack album and promoting the film with live shows and a 1984 appearance on Saturday Night Live. 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.

  4. Spinal Tap (band) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Spinal Tap Drummer Ric Parnell, a.k.a. ‘Mick Shrimpton,’ Dies ...

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    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 ...

  6. List of 2022 deaths in popular music - Wikipedia

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    Spinal Tap, Atomic Rooster: 70: May 1, 2022: Missoula, Montana, U.S. Organ failure caused by blood clot in lungs [106] Howie Pyro D Generation: 61: May 4, 2022: Los Angeles, California, U.S. Complications from COVID-19-related pneumonia following a liver transplant and liver disease [107] Jewell Caples: 53: May 6, 2022: U.S. Lung injury illness ...

  7. The Year in Fictional Music - AOL

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    Every year, pop culture gets a new class of pop stars, and also a new class of fake pop stars. We’re talking about fictional musicians like Spinal Tap, Powerline, and Dewey Cox—artists who ...

  8. Spontaneous human combustion - Wikipedia

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    In the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spın̈al Tap, about the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap, two of the band's former drummers are said to have died in separate on-stage spontaneous human combustion incidents. [41]

  9. Bizarre Gardening Accident - Wikipedia

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    Bizarre Gardening Accident is the second album released by the band Angry Salad.It was released in 1997 by Breaking World Records.The album's title is a reference to the rock mock documentary This Is Spinal Tap, in which the members of the fictional band Spinal Tap explain that one of their former drummers died in a "bizarre gardening accident".