Lorne Michaels Thought That Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi Would ‘Make Fools’ of Themselves as The Blues Brothers
While Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s sunglasses-clad musical duo Blues Brothers went on to star in their own movie, perform concerts across the country and inspire at least one truly baffling English beer commercial…
…it all began with a couple of appearances on Saturday Night Live. Aykroyd and Belushi danced and sang their favorite R&b tracks, with the help of a killer band and Scarface-levels of cocaine circulating throughout their bloodstream.
While The Blues Brothers are now an indelible part of the show’s early history, when the two comedians originally pitched the idea to producer Lorne Michaels, he was more than a little skeptical. As shared in the recent documentary Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, the seeds of the Blues Brothers began with Belushi’s distaste for performing in those recurring bee costume sketches.
According to the book The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the...
…it all began with a couple of appearances on Saturday Night Live. Aykroyd and Belushi danced and sang their favorite R&b tracks, with the help of a killer band and Scarface-levels of cocaine circulating throughout their bloodstream.
While The Blues Brothers are now an indelible part of the show’s early history, when the two comedians originally pitched the idea to producer Lorne Michaels, he was more than a little skeptical. As shared in the recent documentary Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, the seeds of the Blues Brothers began with Belushi’s distaste for performing in those recurring bee costume sketches.
According to the book The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the...
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