The IMAX concert film &34;Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale&34; captures the parody band's (alleged) swan song. Here's how to watch Spinal Tap's final

The IMAX concert film "Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale" captures the parody band's (alleged) swan song.

Here's how to watch Spinal Tap's final show ever: 'They're really serious this time'

The IMAX concert film "Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale" captures the parody band's (alleged) swan song.

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Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as Spinal Tap in 1984. Credit:

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Spinal Tap are finally tapping out.

The iconic parody band that first headbanged its way into hearts around the world in the 1984 Rob Reiner film *This Is Spinal Tap *is saying goodbye. Again. Allegedly.

Following the success of *Spinal Tap II: The End Continues*, the sequel 40 years in the making that released in September, the semifictional English heavy metal group consisting of Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer has one last show for everyone to see. The concert movie *Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale *captures a secretly staged concert at the famed megalithic structure in England, and is set to feature appearances from Shania Twain, Eric Clapton, and Josh Groban.

Coming to IMAX screens in 2026, it's dubbed the "first-ever rock concert at the historic English heritage site," according to a press release. That claim is far from true, given the 10-year run of the Stonehenge Free Festival, which saw acts like Thompson Twins, the Raincoats, Roy Harper, and Clapton's friend and collaborator Jimmy Page play among the plinths between 1974 and 1985.

But it has been several decades since Stonehenge got its rock on. As any Spinal Tap fan can attest, the choice of location for the band's swan song is far from incidental. The monument provided the name and inspiration for one of the band's first hits in the '80s. "Stonehenge" was recently revived in *The End Continues*, when the band played the song for a crowd of adoring fans with backup from Elton John.**

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*The Final Finale* is the result of a joint effort between Bleecker Street, the distributor of *The End Continues* and a recent *This Is Spinal Tap* theatrical re-release, and Vertigo Live, which has produced concert films for acts like Duran Duran and Billy Idol.

"I'm told this is it. They're really serious this time," Bleecker Street CEO Kent Sanderson said in a statement. "While this is ostensibly the end, how fitting is it that this actual-probable-send-off is shot, historically, at Stonehenge, the mysterious landmark that we now know must have been erected thousands of years ago purely to serve as the setting for the last act of Spinal Tap."

Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer in 'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues'.

Spinal Tap originated five years before the mockumentary that shot them to stardom. Reiner, McKean, Guest, and Shearer developed the concept of the parody band in the 1979 pilot for their sketch comedy series *The T.V. Show*. Though the pilot wasn't picked up, Spinal Tap endured, acting as the primary subject of the first film's sendup of breathlessly adulatory rock biopics like Martin Scorsese's *The Last Waltz*.

The band ended up releasing four albums, only two of them tied to *This Is Spinal Tap* and its sequel. 1992's *Break Like the Wind* and 2009's *Back from the Dead* held the band aloft in the cultural memory, and featured guest appearances from stars like Parker Posey, Cher, and Jeff Beck.

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