Volume at Eleven: How Spinal Tap Became the Operating Manual for Modern Civilization
PARIS—Somewhere between the second encore of “Stonehenge” and the moment Nigel Tufnel tries to coax extra volume from an amp that already goes to eleven, it hits you: This Is Spinal Tap is not merely a 1984 mock-rockumentary about three pasty Brits in perilously tight trousers. It is the Rosetta Stone for every multinational boondoggle…