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Since its original release in 1984, This Is Spinal Tap has evolved from a beloved cult film into a cinematic landmark: an all-time comedy classic that pioneered an entire genre of comedy--the mockumentary.

Now, director Rob Reiner and his cowriters and costars, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, tell the complete story of the movie and its fictitious band: how they met, how Spinal Tap came to be, and how their low-budget indie film took on a life of its own, to the point where the reunited Tap played to over 100,000 fans at the Glastonbury Festival twenty-five years after the movie first came out.

Reiner, Guest, McKean, and Shearer provide the backstories to the movie's famous lines--among them "None more black," "You can't dust for vomit," and "These go to eleven"--and to such Tap anthems as "Big Bottom" and "Stonehenge." Featuring never-before-seen photographs, band memorabilia, personal reminiscences of their enduring creative partnership, and an exclusive bonus memoir by Reiner's directorial alter ego, Marty DiBergi, in which he interviews members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls about their musical journey and the multitude of doomed drummers who paid the ultimate sacrifice to the rock gods, These Go to Eleven will delight Tap-heads of all ages.