The first solo album by a member of Spinal Tap

Derek Smalls, bass player for Spinal tap, has released a solo album called "Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)." Smalls is the character played by Harry Shearer in the now legendary 1984 mockumentary "This is "Spinal Tap."

That fake heavy metal band put out a reunion album in 1992 and now we have a solo album. It has been 34 years since the movie came out, so it's appropriate that aging is its theme.

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