Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Alan Rubin, Birch Johnson, Dan Aykroyd, Donald "Duck" Dunn, James Belushi, John Belushi, John Goodman, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy (blues guitarist), Murphy Dunne, Paul Shaffer, Steve Cropper, Steve Jordan (musician), Tom Malone (musician), Tom Scott (musician), Willie Hall (drummer). Excerpt: Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian comedian, singer, actor and screenwriter. 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. Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952, at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Helene (nee Gougeon), is a secretary. His mother was of French Canadian descent and his father of English ancestry. His brother, Peter, also became a comedy actor. Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the movie Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live titled "Don't Look Back In Anger." He was also born with heterochromia - his right eye is green and his left eye is brown. Aykroyd's great-grandfather, Samuel Augustus Aykroyd (1855-1933), a dentist, had been a mystic and had been involved in Spiritualism. This would greatly interest Aykroyd, who stated: "All that stuff was hanging around the old farmhouse I grew up in, so I was kind of steeped in it." This is cited as having motivated him, at least partially, to take a hand in the writing of, and star in, both of the two Ghostbusters films and, later, to serve as the "host" of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. (See below for more...