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Dan Aykroyd Hid John Belushi’s Cocaine While Making ‘The Blues Brothers’

Aykroyd looks back on the birth of the Blues Brothers, his friendship with Belushi, why Ghostbusters 2 is underrated, and more

As Dan Aykroyd reminds us in his enjoyable new Audible Original, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude, there was a moment in 1978 when his friend and collaborator John Belushi had the number one album, movie, and TV show in the country. When we recruited [Steve] Cropper and [Donald “Duck] Dunn [of Booker T. and the M.G.s], who were the backbone guitar players who played behind Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, you name an artist — they were the men that dug the well. I got a sense from the audiobook that Lorne Michaels didn’t necessarily love it when the Blues Brothers performed on Saturday Night Live.

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