Since the 1980s, many motion pictures have been filmed in the city, most notably The Blues Brothers ; Ferris Bueller's Day Off ; Home Alone ; The Fugitive ; I, Robot ; Wanted ; Batman Begins ; The Dark Knight ; and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Despite a fallout from record sales, Brown enjoyed something of a resurgence in this period starting with cameo roles in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit and Rocky IV, as well as guest starring in the Miami Vice episode " Missing Hours " ( 1988 ).

*" Joliet " Jake Blues ( John Belushi ), member of the Blues Brothers band

The trio, along with Leroy Jones formed a defensive frontline that was locally nicknamed The Bruise Brothers, coined from a popular act at the time, The Blues Brothers.

The halftime show was titled " Blues Brothers Bash " and featured actors Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, and James Belushi as the Blues Brothers.

In January 2007, a tribute album, entitled Endless Highway: The Music of The Band, was released which included contributions by My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Gomez, Guster, Bruce Hornsby, Jack Johnson and ALO, Lee Ann Womack, The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Jakob Dylan, and Rosanne Cash, amongst others.

Additional significant trends of the 1980s include Headbands, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses ( popularized in the film " Top Gun "), Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses ( popularized in the films " Risky Business " and " The Blues Brothers "), Swatch watches, Slap bracelets ( popular fad among children, pre-teens and teenagers in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was available in a wide variety of patterns and colors ), and the Rubik's Cube ( became a popular fad throughout the decade ).

* In a scene set at the Chez Paul restaurant in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, the Maître d ' ( Alan Rubin ) is seen talking on the phone: " No, sir, Mayor Daley no longer dines here, sir.

The classic " use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved " line delivered by a police dispatcher is an obvious homage to Daley's 1968 order during the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination.

By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre-hybrids were becoming the norm ; war-action hybrids ( like First Blood and Missing in Action ), science fiction action ( like The Terminator, and RoboCop ), horror-action ( like Aliens and Predator ), and even the occasional musical-action-comedy hybrid ( like The Blues Brothers ).

Examples of action comedies include The Blues Brothers ( 1980 ), 48 Hrs.

The sound still lives on in the Blues Brothers movie, in which many of the players themselves starred.

He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers ( with John Belushi ) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.

During a couple of his guest appearances he resurrected the Blues Brothers musical act with frequent host John Goodman in place of Belushi.

During his monologue, he did a musical bit with James Belushi that was similar to the Blues Brothers, but neither Aykroyd nor Belushi donned the famous black suit and sunglasses.

According to Aykroyd, it was his first meeting with Belushi that helped spark their popular Blues Brothers act.

Aykroyd educated Belushi on the finer points of blues music and, with a little encouragement from then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters.

Backed by such experienced professional R & B sidemen as lead guitarist Steve Cropper, sax man Lou Marini, trumpeter Alan Rubin and bass guitarist Donald " Duck " Dunn, the Blues Brothers proved more than an SNL novelty.

The Blues Brothers Band continues to tour today, featuring original members Cropper and Marini, along with vocalist Eddie Floyd.

Early in the incarnation of the Blues Brothers, Belushi joined the Grateful Dead on stage on April 2, 1980, for a rendition of " Good Morning Little School Girl " at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, N. J ( coinciding with the Dead performing on SNL that weekend ).

* David Olney's 2000 CD Omar's Blues includes the song " Absalom.

The performance at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on the 1999 – 2000 tour was filmed and recorded for the DVD and live album release, House of Yes: Live from House of Blues.

Other films that starred Aykroyd in the 1990s included Exit to Eden, Blues Brothers 2000, and Getting Away with Murder ; these were also poorly received.

The Austrian post office used more Hundertwasser motives for the European edition 1987 ( Modern architecture, Hundertwasser House ), on the occasion of his death in 2000 ( painting Blue Blues, under the WIPA 2000 ) and 2004 National Donauauen ( poster: The outdoors is our freedom at civil protests in Hainburg ).

It was later used in the film Blues Brothers 2000 ( 1998 ), where it was played during a scene where Elwood Blues ( Dan Aykroyd ) and Mack ( John Goodman ) leave two members of the Russian mob unconscious in an alley.

In 2000, the MirrorMundo foundation produced a documentary film called Delta Blues about the problems arising from the drying up of the sea.

" Mickey Rourke Blues " ( 2000 )

His work, The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named " one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 " by the New York Daily News, " Best Solo Show " by Florida's Broward / Palm Beach New Times, and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ).

He would go on to appear in 1998's Blues Brothers 2000.

Shaffer has appeared in a number of motion pictures over the years, including a small role ( Artie Fufkin of Polymer Records ) in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too.

In 1998, Oz portrayed a warden in Blues Brothers 2000.

Oz played a corrections officer in Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000.

During a performance at the House of Blues in Orlando, Florida on October 25, 2000, Graves and Chud both quit the band and walked offstage.

** 2000: Blues Breaker ( with two bonus tracks )

In 2000, Johnson was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Continuing to record for Private Music, she released the blues album Matriarch of the Blues in 2000, which had James returning to her R & B roots with Rolling Stone hailing it as a " solid return to roots ", further stating that the album found the singer " reclaiming her throne — and defying anyone to knock her off it.

Cropper, Dunn and Hall later reprised their roles in Blues Brothers 2000.

He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2000 and a memorial statue was erected in Austin's Auditorium Shores park.

Vaughan won five W. C. Handy Awards and was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2000.

* Obelix is referenced in The King Blues ' 2008 single " My Boulder ".

Currently, Federko is a television color commentator for Fox Sports Midwest during Blues broadcasts.

Furthermore, his 1935 version of " St. Louis Blues " is nearly a word-for-word copy of Al Bernard's patter on his 1928 recording of the same song.

Monday is the Blues ' day off.

Alongside these major festivals, there is also the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival ( moved to June from 2008 ), the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Strictly speaking, " diatonic " denotes any harmonica that is designed for playing in only one key ( though the standard " Richter-tuned " diatonic can be played in other keys by forcing its reeds to play tones that are not part of its basic scale ; see Blues harp ).

In addition to other attractive prizes awarded to the top 3 winners in each division, the first place winner of the Adult Division is invited to perform on the main stage of the Bean Blossom Blues Fest later that evening in front of a crowd of several thousand.

in the course of the Nika Riot, “ The temple of Sophia, the baths of Zeuxippus, and the imperial courtyard from the Propylaia all the way to the so-called House of Ares were burned up and destroyed, as were both of the great porticos that lead to the forum that is named after Constantine, houses of prosperous people, and a great deal of other properties .” The warring factions of Byzantine society, the Blues and the Greens, opposed each other in the chariot races at the Hippodrome and often resorted to violence.

Joplin's early performances from when she was a folk-blues singer have been released on several well received compilations through the years, one such compilation is the nine disc Blow All My Blues Away.

There is doubt about the future of the Arms Park after 2010 following the move of the Cardiff Blues to the Cardiff City Stadium.

An annual Navasota Blues Festival is held in his honor, and on August 12, 2011, a bronze sculpture of him was unveiled in Mance Lipscomb Park in Navasota.

The first musical use of the term psychedelic is thought to have been by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly's " Hesitation Blues " in 1964.

The most explicit is ' Longhair ’ s Blues Rhumba ,' where he overlays a straightforward blues with a clave rhythm.

First is Robert Johnson's " Traveling Riverside Blues ", one of the best-known examples of Delta blues slide guitar.

For many, the mellotron is epitomized of The Moody Blues and their symphonic sound.

Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first President.

When a musician hears Bix's solo on ' Singing the Blues ', he becomes aware after two bars that the soloist knows exactly what he is doing and that he has an exquisite sense of discord and resolution.

Telluride is mentioned in the song " Smuggler's Blues " by Glenn Frey, and is the subject of and eponymous songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1985, Kate Wolf, and Tim McGraw in 2001, which was re-recorded by Josh Gracin in 2008.

Morton is also notable for naming and popularizing the " Spanish tinge " ( habanera rhythm and tresillo ), and for penning such standards as " Wolverine Blues ", " Black Bottom Stomp ", and " I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say ", the latter a tribute to New Orleans personalities from the turn of the 19th century to 20th century.

Memphis is the subject of numerous pop and country songs, including " The Memphis Blues " by W. C. Handy, " Memphis, Tennessee " by Chuck Berry, " Night Train to Memphis " by Roy Acuff, " Goin ' to Memphis " by Paul Revere and the Raiders, " Queen of Memphis " by Confederate Railroad, " Memphis Soul Stew " by King Curtis, " Maybe It Was Memphis " by Pam Tillis, " Graceland " by Paul Simon, " Memphis Train " by Rufus Thomas, " All the Way from Memphis " by Mott the Hoople, " Wrong Side of Memphis " by Trisha Yearwood, " Walking in Memphis " by Marc Cohn, " Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again " by Bob Dylan, " Memphis Skyline " by Rufus Wainwright, and " Sequestered in Memphis " by The Hold Steady.

The former is the historic highway north to Chicago via Cairo, Illinois, while the latter roughly parallels the Mississippi River for most of its course and crosses the Mississippi Delta region to the south, with the Delta also legendary for Blues music.