“This is Spinal Tap” — the 1984 “rockumentary” about a British rock group on the slide — returns to theaters July 5 through 7, celebrating its 41st anniversary and a gold-plated remastering.

The film was directed by Rob Reiner and largely improvised with cast members Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean, among others.

Improv isn’t for everybody says, McKean, who played David St. Hubbins in the film. “I think it’s the way you came up. If you started out working with a script and never veered from that, you maybe think of improvisation as some arcane art. ... (But) what Harry and I did with the Credibility Gap, which was this outfit we were part of, it was mostly scripted but there was still this kind of onstage thing.”

“Every actor ideally is listening first and talking second. But for improvising you have to double that,” says Shearer, who played Derek Smalls in “This is Spinal Tap.”

“You have to be much more of a listener and much less of a talker. So in a way, perhaps it may have something to do with ego because when you’re listening, ergo, you’re not talking. And if you like to be the guy talking ... I analogize it to basketball: There are guys who like to pass. There are guys who like to score. Scoring is more noticeable; it gets you paid more money. I would analogize that to acting. If you want to be a movie star, you want to look nice and talk good. Listening kind of follows in its wake.”

McKean adds, “And if you are one person in a scene with six or seven brilliant improvisers who also know the lesson about listening, chances are you’re going to be OK.”

Bassist Kaye declines hall induction: Carol Kaye, a prolific and revered bassist who played on thousands of songs in the 1960s, said Friday that she wants no part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“I’ve declined the rrhof. Permanently,” Kaye, 90, said in an email. She said she has sent a letter to the Hall saying the same thing.

Her remarks came two days after a Facebook post in which she said, “NO I won’t be there. I am declining the RRHOF awards show.”

Kaye was set to be inducted in November.

She said in her deleted post that she was “turning it down because it wasn’t something that reflects the work that Studio Musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s Recording Hits.”

Kaye’s credits include the bass lines on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer.”

Along with drummer Hal Blaine and guitarist Tommy Tedesco, she was part of a core of heavily used studio musicians that Blaine later dubbed “The Wrecking Crew.”

Kaye suggested that her association with the name was part of the reason for declining induction. “I was never a ‘wrecker’ at all,” she wrote in her Facebook post, “that’s a terrible insulting name.”

June 25 birthdays: Actor June Lockhart is 100. Singer Eddie Floyd is 88. Singer Carly Simon is 82. Actor Jimmie Walker is 78. Singer Tim Finn is 73. Musician David Paich is 71. Comedian Ricky Gervais is 64. Actor John Benjamin Hickey is 62. Actor Angela Kinsey is 54. Actor Linda Cardellini is 50. Actor Busy Philipps is 46.