JOHN BELUSHI could say more with an eyebrow than most performers can with their entire body, and was unarguably the first rock´n´roll comedian. Hugely talented as a comic, mimic, and singer, he battled off-stage with the addictions to food, drink, and drugs that would eventually lead to his untimely death in 1982. Despite these demons in tow however he still achieved global movie fame in two of the biggest comedy-hits of the late-Seventies and early-Eighties: Animal House, and The Blues Brothers.

It was as a leading-light in the original 1975 Saturday Night Live cast though where he can be seen at his most creative. NBC´s live weekly satirical show broadcasting out of New York - and often seen as America´s answer to Monty Python - proved the perfect vehicle for Belushi´s inspired lunacy. Whether uncannily impersonating Joe Cocker; taking the leading-role in sketches such as the infamous NBC-baiting "Star Trek" parody; or giving the first airing to his and Dan Aykroyd´s most popular creations The Blues Brothers: THE BEST OF JOHN BELUSHI - released for the first time on DVD in the UK - illustrates just why Belushi has proved such a long lasting inspiration to subsequent generations of comics, and comedy-fans.

Belushi´s tombstone reads "I may be gone but rock´n´roll lives on."

• Preis: 17,99 Euro
• Stand: 10.03.2010