Soul sister, `Blues Brother`: Aretha Franklin`s iconic co-stars
(Artdaily.org)

The death of soul queen Aretha Franklin on Thursday marked the passing of the last of the great musical icons of cult comedy movie `The Blues Brothers.` The 1980 film told the fictionalized story of the real-life Blues Brothers -- an American revivalist band founded by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi for NBC`s `Saturday Night Live` sketch show. `The Blues Brothers` went on to become one of the best known musical movies in history, noted for the array of stars who put in cameos while brothers Jake and Elwood get the band back together. Here are some of the musical heavy-hitters who graced the movie before boarding the big Soul Train in the sky. Aretha was the `queen of soul` but Brown was known as its `godfather,` as well as `Soul Brother Number One` and