'Walk Hard' soundtrack ups ante for parodies

December 05, 2007 To add pressure to the process, there's the Holy Grail of parody soundtracks -- "This Is Spinal Tap" -- looming in the background. When Kasdan and Apatow sat down to write songs for larger-than-life musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) they cast a wide net to bring in songwriters and a few musical legends to help pen music that spans seven decades. By the first draft, Kasdan and Apatow, who unlike their "Spinal Tap" counterparts are not musicians, had created titles and lyric fragments suggesting the kinds of songs they wanted for each sequence of the film.

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