SHOWING AT FESTIVALS
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WHEN Harry Shearer was looking for a pianist to take on tour with Spinal Tap in the early 1990s, his first thought was Nicky Hopkins. Since the 1960s, Hopkins had accompanied everybody from John Lennon to David Soul, but Shearer decided that joining Spinal Tap may have been a step too far – Hopkins was “too good to be funny”.
In the end, Hopkins played on Tap’s “Rainy. Hopkins was so good that even piano players wanted him on their albums – that’s Hopkins on Harry Nilsson’s “You’re Breaking My Heart”.
