Simpsons & Spinal Tap legend Harry Shearer interviewed in the new Hot Press

Out tomorrow with Grace Jones looking all mean ‘n’ moody on the cover, the new issue of Hot Press contains an in-depth interview with Spinal Tap and Simpsons legend Harry Shearer.
“Spinal Tap was born not out of a desire to take the piss out of the industry, but the shared frustration that movies kept on getting rock ‘n’ roll wrong," says Shearer who last week announced that he’s suing the rights-current holders to the, if you will, rockumentary for alleged unpaid royalties. “That was the animating spirit that set us going on that project.”
Asked the inevitable “What’s your favourite Simpsons episode?” question, Shearer smiles and replies: “There are too many of them to have a favourite, but the most memorable was definitely when Michael Jackson came in. There was no physical distance between us but mentally, of course, it was another story!”
Elsewhere, Harry talks about the “hellish” environment when he pitched up at Saturday Night Live in the late ‘70s, Trump v Hillary, Richard Pryor, James Brown and his singer-songwriter wife, Judith Owen, who’s Dublin-bound on November 4 & 5 for shows in Avenue in Temple Bar.