Then there’s that iconic silhouette — dark shades ... they connected the Blues Brothers to Black R&B performers who still wore formal suits on stage in the 1970s, at a time when rock musicians ...

he started to re-work the Blues Brothers act with Aykroyd. It was at this point that the black suits, dark sunglasses, and small patch of hair under the lower lip started being worked in ...

“Not only are [the musicians] black," Landis remembered Mann saying, "they are out of fashion.” Of course, Landis, Belushi, Aykroyd and the entire Blues Brothers team had the last laug ...

Belushi appeared to be alluding to how The Blues Brothers often included Black artists as members, even though it was headlined by two white men. Bloom told the comedian that most of the critics ...

Late comedian John Belushi formed the Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd in the late ’70s for “Saturday Night Live,” unknowingly creating a cult classic duo for the ages. As the musical pair ...

that the movie and the accompanying Blues Brothers concert tours and hit records represented White cultural appropriation of Black music at its most blithely entitled. But he also reminds readers ...

“It’s just weird, you know?” Belushi said in response to the critics. “Why would I do these things? The people watching me understand why I do it, and the band members do. The other people ...