# Matt "Guitar" Murphy dead at 88 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [June 16, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190 "2018-06-16T03:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190/21 "2018-06-19T19:49:03Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > “Well, go ahead, dammit!!!” When I open the door in the mornings for the dogs, the three young ones go racing out. Doxie stands there, giving me the Blue Lou look, and I always give me best Aretha impression and yell that at him. 😛 > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Blue Lou’s finest moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4)(STARTS at 1:58) That’s good, but for me, its the look on his face and the tone of voice when he says just two words: _“Chicken Wire?”_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190/22 "2018-06-20T13:51:51Z")
One thing I just noticed: The restaurant scene is the only scene in the whole movie where people break into an incredible song-and-dance routine in a venue where that never happens. Even other singing scene is in a place where people normally do such things (though the church scene and the jail house rock scene are a bit much). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190/23 "2018-08-13T18:07:30Z")
[Looking like “Mrs. Murphy” Aretha Franklin will join him soon.](https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/08/13/aretha-franklin-gravely-sick/974630002/) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190/24 "2018-08-14T13:20:28Z")
I had that thought too. She is dying so soon after her Blues Brothers husband. One of life’s little ha-ha’s I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190/25 "2018-08-16T20:01:13Z")
Consolidated, corrected and updated list Dead Blues Brothers: Joilet Jake Blues (John Belushi) (March 5, 1982) Alan “Mr. Fabulous” Rubin,(June 8, 2011) Donald “Duck” Dunn, (May 13, 2012) Matt “Guitar” Murphy, (June 15, 2018) Other actors from the original Blues Brothers movie who have since died: John Candy as Burton Mercer (March 4, 1994) Cab Calloway as Curtis (November 18, 1994) John Lee Hooker as Street Slim (June 21, 2001) Kathleen Freeman as Sister Mary Stigmata (August 23, 2001) Ray Charles as Ray (June 10, 2004) Jeff Morris as Bob of Bob’s Country Bunker(July 12, 2004) James as Reverend Cleophus James (December 25, 2006) Henry Gibson as the head Nazi (September 14, 2009) Charles Lewis Napier as Tucker McElroy (October 5, 2011) Carrie Fisher as Jake’s ex-girlfriend (December 27, 2016) Aretha Franklin as Mrs. Murphy (August16, 2018) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88/816190.md?page=1)