Spinal Tap Is Latest Group To Forbid Trump From Using Its Music
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Harry Shearer, who plays bassist Derek Smalls in the fictional heavy metal band, posted a demand that the former president not play its song "Sex Farm."
Even a fictional band doesn’t want Donald Trump playing its songs at his rallies.
The members of Spinal Tap, the fictional heavy metal band in the 1984 mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” featuring comedy legends Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Christoper Guest, have drawn a line in the sand with the former president regarding their music.
Well, at least one song.
On Friday, Shearer (aka Tap bassist Derek Smalls) posted on X, formerly Twitter, demanding “that the Trump campaign refrain from playing ‘Sex Farm’ at their rallies.”
The post was in response to a recent ruling that stopped Trump’s presidential campaign from playing “Hold On, I’m Coming” by the late Isaac Hayes during events.
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