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David St. Hubbins is a fictional character in the mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap (1984). In the film, he is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the mock rock band Spinal Tap. David is played by actor Michael McKean, who improvised the role through the whole film. McKean writes in his introduction to This Is Spinal Tap: The Official Guide, “When I am called upon to generate copy about the mostly fictional entity called Spinal Tap, I usually do so in the mostly fictional character of David St. Hubbins.”

St. Hubbins’s name was inspired by Derek St. Holmes, who is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Ted Nugent.

St. Hubbins, whose namesake is the “Patron Saint of Quality Footwear”, was born August 13, 1947, in Squatney, London, England. He grew up in Squatney in flat #45. Fellow Spinal Tap band member Nigel Tufnel lived next door in flat #47. They did not know each other at first. At age 7 and 8, the new friends Nigel and David began their musical adventure together. David says: “We left school and started playing Tube station skiffle. It was like the filings feel about a magnet. We were the filings, Spinal Tap became the magnet”. They have recorded the first song they wrote together in 1955: “All the Way Home“.

After his first divorce, St. Hubbins was married to his long-time girlfriend, Jeanine Pettibone (June Chadwick). They moved to Pomona, California, where they opened two “boutiquerias”. David credits Jeanine and her love of astrology with getting his cosmically challenged life back in order. In an interview with David and Jeanine, David said, “Before I met Jeanine my life was cosmically a shambles. I was using bits and pieces of whatever eastern philosophy would drift through my transom“. His relationship with Jeanine caused some turbulence in the band, especially when she became the band’s manager toward the end of the tour documented in This Is Spinal Tap. They were divorced in early 2000 and remained on friendly terms. According to a deleted scene from the movie, David has a son named Jordan.

The fictional character of David St. Hubbins took part in the non-fictional musical advocacy group Hear ‘n Aid.

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Nigel Tufnel is a fictional character in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. In the film, he is the lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap. He was played by actor Christopher Guest.

Nigel Tufnel was born in Squatney, East London on 5 February 1948. He was given his first guitar, a Sunburst “Rhythm King”, by his father at age six. His life changed when he met David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) who lived next door. They began jamming together in a toolshed in David’s garden, influenced by (fictional) early blues artists like Honkin’ Bubba Fulton, Little Sassy Francis and particularly Big Little Daddy Coleman, a deaf guitar player, and wrote their first song, “All the Way Home“. Before long they had formed their first band, The Thamesmen.

Tufnel’s hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy is his Sea Foam Green six-string Fender Bass VI with the price tag still attached, which he has kept in mint condition by not allowing it to be played, touched, pointed at, looked at, or talked about. He also has a Gibson Les Paul 1959 model, whose acoustic properties and carved flame-maple top he praises. He also plays mandolin and piano, and does backing vocals. In the film he is writing a classical piece which he feels combines the musical characteristics of both Mozart and Bach (a “Mach piece”) in D minor, which he claims is the “saddest of all keys”. The piece is provisionally titled “Lick My Love Pump”.

Tufnel has a great love for Gumby, carrying figurines of Gumby and Pokey in his shirt pocket and wearing Gumby shirts frequently. He is also a self-proclaimed “fish nut”, liking cod and canned tuna because they have “no bones”. Tufnel sits on the editorial board of his preferred in-flight periodical, Car and Driver. His favorite cookies are Oreos, but without the filling. A rider in his contract requires a large plate of Oreo halves, without frosting. Onstage he wears glam rock-inspired makeup and usually plays a Gibson Les Paul. He is almost always seen chewing gum.

Tufnel has stated that if he was not in the music industry he would like to either enter the field of haberdashery or become a surgeon.

Tufnel is especially noted for his amplifier, which has numbering going “up to eleven”, which he believes makes it louder than amplifiers that only go up to ten (“It’s one louder”). When he is asked why the ten setting is not simply set to be louder, Nigel pauses, clearly confused, before responding, “These go to eleven.”^[1][2]

In the run-up to 2011, Spinal Tap fans created a movement to make 11/11/11 “Nigel Tufnel Day.”^[3] The movement was organised by The Nigel Tufnel Day Appreciation Society and Quilting Bee in Favor of Declaring & Observing 11 November 2011 as Nigel Tufnel Day (in Recognition of Its Maximum Elevenness). The theme of Nigel Tufnel Day was to take whatever you are doing on that day and “turn it up to 11”.

• Using a violin (as opposed to a violin bow, as made famous by Jimmy Page) to play his guitar
• Playing a second guitar with his foot
• Classical music inspired solos
• Playing another guitar from a distance using horseshoes (as in The Return of Spinal Tap)

• This Is Spinal Tap at IMDb
• The Ultimate Spinal Tap Discography – an illustrated guide to Tap’s albums (both real and imagined)

• This Is Spinal Tap at IMDb

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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.

Derek grew up in Nilford-on-Null in the West Midlands, England, where his father, Donald “Duff” Smalls, ran a telephone sanitisation business, “Sani-Fone”.^[1] He joined Spın̈al Tap in 1967 after the departure of bassist Ronnie Pudding.^[2]

Derek has described bandmates David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel as “distinct types of visionaries … like fire and ice”, saying that he considered his role in the band to be “in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water”.^[3] A pipe-smoker, he has been known to enhance his appearance by placing a foil-wrapped courgette in his trousers, which resulted in an embarrassing incident passing through a metal detector at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport during 1982’s “Tap Into America” tour.^[4]

Smalls played killer #1 in Marco Zamboni’s Roma ’79,^[5] and is the star of a series of comical Belgian television commercials for the snack food Floop. He is also a prize-winning gardener, having developed and patented a totally black rose, the Death by Midnight. He released a solo album, It’s a Smalls World, in the mid 1970s,^[1] and also played in the Christian rock band Lambsblood in the late 1980s before rejoining Spinal Tap for their reunion tour in 1992.^[6] During this period, he also worked briefly for his father’s business.^[1] After the band broke up in 1992, Derek became employed as a “floater” in an elementary school, with such duties as a crossing guard and straightening library books. According to the 2007 short film Spinal Tap, it is revealed that Derek checked into rehab to be treated for an addiction to the internet.

A solo album, Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing), was announced in early 2018, including collaborations from many prominent rock musicians.^[7]

Smalls has expressed a desire to collaborate with Mozart. He said: “I think we’d have a lot to share. I know chords he’s never used.”^[8]

The character appears in part to be a satire of Lemmy from Motörhead, who wore a similar mutton chop beard. However, his onstage mannerisms resemble those of fellow bass player Steve Dawson from the band Saxon, with whom Shearer went on the road before filming This Is Spinal Tap.^[9] “Harry Shearer came on tour with us in ’82”, confirmed singer Biff Byford. “The guy he based his character on was our old bass player Steve Dawson – the moustache, the pointing to the audience.”^[10]

In the film, Smalls can be seen wearing both a Shrewsbury Town football shirt and a West Ham baseball cap.^[11]

Jethro Tull singer Ian Anderson has claimed that the name was derived from “Derek Small”, which appears in the liner notes of the band’s albums Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play. Asked by Anderson about the origin of the name, Shearer responded “I don’t know—it just came out of my head.” Anderson recalls then asking, “I don’t suppose, Harry, you happen to have a copy of Thick as a Brick in your record collection at home?” to which he concluded (from Shearer’s reaction): “And he knew I’d got him then.”^[12][13]

• Karl French et al. (2001). This Is Spinal Tap – The Official Companion, Bloomsbury ISBN 0-7475-5284-3.

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• This Is Spinal Tap at IMDb