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To promote Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi and John Goodman performed at the Super Bowl XXXI halftime show, along with ZZ Top and James Brown. The performance was preceded with a faux news report stating the Blues Brothers had escaped custody and were on their way to the Louisiana Superdome.
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. [4] It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
The band was much further popularized in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, which Aykroyd co-wrote. A sequel, titled Blues Brothers 2000, was released in 1998 and featured John Goodman as Belushi's replacement. [citation needed] Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles was a regular haunt for the original Blues Brothers in the early days of the band ...
The Blues Brothers — Aykroyd's Elwood and Belushi's “Joliet” Jake — wore black suits and black string ties inspired by comedian Lenny Bruce and snap-brim fedora hats and shades borrowed ...
Aykroyd writes and narrates the Audible Original “Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude,” which starts with him meeting Belushi one freezing night in Toronto in 1973 and takes us to today, with gigs still lining up. The documentary drops Thursday. “It’s cool to keep doing it after 40-some years,” Aykroyd says from his summer home in ...
Aykroyd thinks back to working with the Godfather and Queen of Soul on the 1980 classic "The Blues Brothers." 'Blues Brothers': Dan Aykroyd on working with late soul greats James Brown and Aretha ...
The album consists of covers of blues and soul songs from the 1950s to 1970s. The album hit number 1 on the Billboard album chart and sold over two million US copies, going double platinum; [4] according to Blues Brothers member Dan Aykroyd, the album has sold 3.5 million copies in total. [5] It is among the highest-selling blues albums of all ...
In 1978, The Blues Brothers recorded a cover of "Rubber Biscuit" on the album Briefcase Full of Blues; this version (with lead vocal by actor-singer Dan Aykroyd) was also released as a single. [2] The single peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 [3] and #44 in Canada. This led to royalties for the original Chips, and they briefly re-united to ...