Since Spinal Tap where featured as the focus group of some fat dude's documentary in 1982, many who have witnesses what they called a "mockumentry" say that this group was purely fictional. How wrong they where... Spinal Tap are as real as you & I, and Santa and Michael Jackson being innocent of child molestation. Spinal Tap have inspired all the great metal bands, everyone from AC/DC to ZZ-Top.