The Blues Brothers cameos include plenty of music legends, one iconic film director and an iconic Star Wars actor.

Dan Aykroyd, who, beside starring, was the lead author of “The Blues Brothers” script, wanted the movie to showcase the greats of golden-era rhythm and blues who by then were all but forgotten ...

In the final script, and in the Blues Brothers film, the “mission from God” refers to the goofy central plot. Jake and Elwood Blues set out to raise $5,000 to pay a delinquent tax bill for the ...

Ray Charles is largely considered the originator of soul music, that bastard child of the blues, rock & roll, and gospel that upset about every Christian churchgoer in the late 1950s. That, of course, ...

Many critics hated the Blues Brothers movie, but it made enough of an impression to lead to a sequel. And this summer's 25th anniversary brings the inevitable anniversary DVD.

Yet, by 1979, when "The Blues Brothers" came to town, Mayor Daley was dead. Jane Byrne had just taken office as Chicago’s first female mayor. She was happy to let the production in.

THR praised his performance — “Most pivotally, Foxx expresses Charles’ inner nature, his natural sweetness and his harmony with the world” — which would earn him an Oscar.