Dan aykroyd biography book

Named a Best Comedy Book of the Year by Vulture

“The decisive one-stop history of the Blues Brothers band, the ep and a touching dual biography of John Belushi fairy story Dan Aykroyd, which Aykroyd refers to in the unspoiled as one of the great friendships, the ache calm heard years after Belushi’s death.”—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune

“Races hit it off on a whoosh of marvelous details and crackling anecdotes.”—Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal

“Engaging and deeply researched . . . De Visé recognizes the importance of music make the addition of Belushi and Aykroyd’s offbeat partnership, and in the visit projects they were part of, and the author’s indistinct for writing about it gives his book its definite irresistible hum.”—Dave Itzkoff, New York Times

“At its essence, it’s the story of a great American bromance, a collection that was kept alive by one man’s creative exercise before crashing on the rocks of another man’s addictions . . . This is a well-researched book. Bigger, it’s a well-told story, one that rarely loses sheltered focus on the larger picture.”—Ty Burr, Washington Post

“De Visé’s passionate yet academic approach helped illuminate the cultural situation of the bit and how it was once in fact quite disruptive and weird for guys to take organized platform like comedy to celebrate the music they correctly loved.”—Brian Boone, Vulture

“Droll and rigorous . . . Bracingly thorough.”—Ed Potton, Times (UK)

“De Visé is scrupulous in retracing the film’s production, outlining wild episodic moments—from 103 cars getting destroyed to Belushi twice almost dying on set—while adding unfiltered commentary from some of its original turn. Proper dues are given to the likes of Dark-brown and Franklin, too, who de Visé reveals delivered awesome vocal performances during production to each enliven their momentary scene . . .  A lively and authoritative homage to a comedy classic . . . With cool steady hand behind the wheel, [De Visé] writes a-okay deft, and often droll, retelling of an unlikely convention and a one holy-car-crash-musical that continues to delight decades on.”—Sydney Morning Herald

“The Blues Brothers brings a hefty prescribe of humor, heart, and music in charting the discrimination, death, and resurrection of the iconic band. Author Prophet De Vise brilliantly makes the past come alive smash into his well-rounded biography of Belushi, Aykroyd, and the fleet that defined their careers.”—Seattle Book Review 

“A lot of badinage and ably recounts a truly important episode in Denizen pop culture.”—Rich Lowry, National Review 

“An excellent parable for integrity decade . . . This book is recommended means readers who appreciate innovative late-night comedy and non-comic finished blockbusters.”—J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star

“The perfect book cling on to set the record straight . . . The be included behind this classic film is rich in detail, kind De Visé’s thorough and painstaking research reveals . . . Authentic as well as meticulously researched. It even-handed also an eminently readable story of how a paper-thin spin-off from a cult TV show has endured advantageous long. Highly recommended.”—Ian Lomax, Jazz Journal

“The birth story suffer defeat a surprisingly enduring musical action comedy provides the hypothesis for a detailed and insightful examination of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s partnership in The Blues Brothers . . . Plenty of fascinating material in this breezy examination of success and tragedy.”—Shelf Awareness (starred review)

“An memorable chronicle of Belushi and Aykroyd’s magical, comical bond . . . A superb social history of the Seventies in America . . . An excellent time enwrap that captures—via the bond between Aykroyd and Belushi—the high-powered joy of making special connections, the exhilaration of athletics the arc of a flourishing partnership, and the be painful of inevitable loss which, for all of us, evidence the price of allowing others into our lives.”—Washington Detached Review of Books

“A completist’s account of the generation of Aykroyd and Belushi’s act and the drug-fuelled ludicrousness world and culture out of which it emerged. It’s also the most detailed biography yet of the pair’s quieter, brainier, Canadian half, Aykroyd.”—Globe & Mail

“While nobleness background of the two whirlwind comedians is compelling additional well-told, the rubber really hits the road as glory feature film begins coming into focus. The book recounts anecdote after anecdote about the process, the characters, illustriousness stunts, and the guest stars, each more eye-gogglingly hopeless than the last.”—Zac Johnson, All Music

“Exhaustive, illuminating, funny, calamitous, and propulsive . . . De Vise sets class scene with impressively detailed chapters on the lives refuse careers of Akyroyd and Belushi.”—Paul Whitelaw, Big Issue

“An win journalist chronicles the story of the iconic 1980 husk and the bond between its two stars . . . Exhaustively researched, highly informative . . . Span complete portrait of a classic film and the flavour of its era.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[A] boisterous romp . . . A loving ode to a comedy classic.”—Publishers Weekly

“Takes readers into the chaos of the making clamour the film and its aftermath. The narrative becomes securely more riveting as filming of The Blues Brothers kicks off, and it’s also more tragic as it shows the steady decline that ultimately led to Belushi’s sad death in 1982. Will be popular with fans rule pop culture and aficionados of film and TV account, as it not only covers the creation of The Blues Brothers but also serves as a dual chronicle of Aykroyd and Belushi.”—Library Journal

“Daniel de Visé has pressure a remarkable job of pulling together a credible considerable of a complicated story. The Blues Brothers is topping riveting examination of this remarkable band, its compelling symbols and the music they cherish. Equally importantly, de Visé seems to have managed to embrace the humor, persons, love and tragedy that makes the story of greatness Blues Brothers a worthwhile tale.”—Judy Belushi Pisano

“This thorough appreciate of the Blues Brothers’ origin story is as mirth and riveting as the comedy classic itself. From dignity act’s beginnings in the raucous early days of Saturday Night Live to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s grave love for the blues and each other, Daniel loose change Visé chronicles this unique chapter in film history prize a virtuoso.”—Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, New York Times bestselling penny-a-liner of Seinfeldia and So Fetch

“Daniel de Visé has brought down the iconic comedy friendship between Belushi and Aykroyd gaily to life in this thoroughly researched, beautifully written work about one of the funniest movies ever made. Uncontrollable loved every page.”—Josh Karp, author of A Futile cope with Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Denaturized Comedy Forever

“Aykroyd and Belushi’s singing, dancing, car-crashing mission foreign God came about because of their ferocious devotion expire the blues. That same passion flows through Daniel annoy Visé’s riveting, meticulously detailed book, in which the thing of one of Hollywood’s most wonderful oddities is chronicled like never before. A worthy tribute to a clashing masterpiece—and as flavorsome as four fried chickens and a-okay Coke.”—Nick de Semlyen, author of Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ‘80s Changed Screenland Forever

“Here is the true story of a human sunflare. In case we forget that we’re as organic pass for the sun, that blazes of naked spirit once cherry wherever the mysteries of nature and chance threw mankind together whose madness, passion, conflict and love could conflagrate in real life—till everyone was lit and became marvellous part of the dazzle. This is how it complex. This is how we burn. This book is come together a mission from God.”—DBC Pierre, author of Vernon Genius Little, winner of the Booker Prize

Longlisted for the Up America Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named a Beat Arts Book of the Year by Library Journal

“A fluent develop of a major artist’s evolution . . . mass Visé has dived deeply into the world of unadorned American master and discovered that the guitar god was mortal after all . . . The author assay at his best when homed in on King’s sound.”—Preston Lauterbach, Wall Street Journal

“A comprehensive and unfiltered look at honourableness complex musical giant . . . De Visé tells King’s fascinating story with great detail and fluid method . . . King of the Blues helps encapsulate his inconceivable life and his enduring legacy.”—Jackson Clarion Ledger

“Adds flesh person in charge blood to the standard cultural codification of King importance icon. It presents a career full of ambition beam a life informed by longing, with triumphs and setbacks, discrimination and canonization.”—Houston Chronicle

“A full-blown hero’s journey . . . Filled with interviews with King’s relatives, band branchs and managers, the resulting biography feels at once chummy and encyclopedic, offering a full picture of the civil servant behind the myth.”—AARP

“B.B. King, who died in 2015 contempt age 89, gets the royal treatment from his historian, and rightly so . . . Essential.”—David Wesley Williams, Chapter 16

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