This Is Spinal Tap is one of my favourite films of all time. It’s sharply written, and acted with a deathly seriousness which is all the more effective given that it satirises the excesses and absurdities of rock music. I can’t remember anything else which had quite such a profound effect on my formative years: me and my friends would often bark quotes from the film at each other, mostly at inappropriate moments – “Hello Cleveland!” we would shout when entering the hallowed quarters of the Ipswi
Hackers have reportedly taken control of the X account belonging to Neil Innes, the late British comedian dubbed the ‘unofficial seventh member of Monty…