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TIL The Blues Brothers Band [Aykroyd, Belushi, et al] had a number #1 album which went double platinum and they opened for the Grateful Dead BEFORE the film was made. That album has now sold more than 3.5 million copies and is among the highest-selling blues albums of all time.

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