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Smalls

[smawlz]

noun

  1. Robert, 1839–1915, U.S. captain in the Union navy and politician, born into slavery in South Carolina: congressman 1875–79, 1882–87.



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Not that the sight, 40 years on, of the sweetly clueless Tufnel, McKean’s prickly frontman David St. Hubbins and Shearer’s man-of-few-blurts Derek Smalls reuniting for one last concert won’t trigger a low-wattage 83-minute-long smile.

DiBergi finds Tufnel working as a cheesemonger in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Smalls as the proprietor of London glue museum and St Hubbins living in Los Angeles making answering machine jingles.

From BBC

Smalls’ mustache still looks magnificent.

“Spinal Tap II” reveals that they now live in different parts of the globe — St. Hubbins in Morro Bay, Calif.; Tufnel in Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northern England; Smalls in London — and haven’t spoken since the last comeback tour.

“We killed them,” notes Smalls.

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