Richard “Ric” J. Parnell, who was born on August 13, 1951, died away on May 1, 2022. He was a well-known English rock drummer.

Parnell might be biggest acknowledged for his work with the band (*70*) Rooster, nonetheless he’s moreover remembered for his place as a result of the ill-fated drummer Mick Shrimpton throughout the film This Is Spinal Tap.

Sad data regarding the dying at 70 of Ric Parnell, who drummed with everybody from Jeff Beck to Cher and Bette Midler to Ravi Shankar. He moreover made an unforgettable look – and dramatic disappearance – as ill-fated Mick Shrimpton throughout the primary movie “This is Spinal Tap”. pic.twitter.com/jmKePTN4Rd

— Neil Drysdale (@NeilDrysdale)
May 2, 2022

Shearer, who portrayed Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls, launched Parnell’s dying on Sunday. There was no level out of a rationalization for dying.

Parnell portrayed Shrimpton throughout the 1984 cult primary mockumentary a few heavy metal band with an prolonged conduct of shedding drummers to unfathomable tragedy.

Shrimpton survives prolonged ample to look in Rob Reiner’s film. However, the character ends up exploding on stage all through a Japanese tour.

According to a submit by the band’s Harry Shearer and Yahoo News, Ric Parnell, who carried out Spinal Tap’s drummer Mick Shrimpton throughout the renowned 1984 heavy metal film, has died on the age of 70.

Initially, no rationalization for dying was given. The drummers of Spinal Tap are a recurring gag throughout the film the complete band’s earlier drummers had perished, one from spontaneous combustion.

Moreover, whereas Parnell appears all by means of the film, he, too, violently combusts in path of the conclusion.

He contributed to the film’s soundtrack CD and a follow-up file. Parnell most not too way back resided in Missoula, Montana, the place he co-hosted a weekly radio current named “Spontaneous Combustion.”

Ric Parnell, the actor who carried out drummer Mick Shrimpton throughout the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, died at 70.

In the Nineteen Seventies, he moreover carried out drums with the British progressive/laborious rock band (*70*) Rooster and, further not too way back, on solo albums for Radio Birdman’s Deniz Tek.

Awe, the working gag of the lifeless Spinal Tap drummer has come to an in depth with the exact dying of drummer Ric Parnell at 70. #HeRockedHardestOfAllhttps://t.co/RYYkTj8bwc

— Nikki Blakk (@NikkiBlakk)
May 2, 2022

Parnell in the end moved to Missoula, Montana, and began web internet hosting a weekly radio current. To assist with the drummer’s burial costs, a GoFundMe net web page has been organize.

Spinal Tap turned a working band, producing a soundtrack CD and promoting the film with dwell gigs and an look on Saturday Night Live in 1984.

Following the dying of Mick Shrimpton’s character in This Is Spinal Tap, Parnell assumed the place of his “twin brother” drummer Ric Shrimpton for the rest of the band’s reveals.