Putting the Band Together
Plenty of people played a part in the success of This Is Spinal Tap, but none of it would have been quite the same without the four main players: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Rob Reiner. If a single one of those people was taken away, the film might never have happened or may not have been as big as it was.
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And perhaps the most fascinating thing of all is that it was only by sheer coincidence that the four men managed to meet in the first place. McKean and Guest, for example, ended up going to the same New York college together and met in the ‘60s, only later meeting Shearer and Reiner when they were brought on to work on a TV pilot for a 1970s sketch comedy show.