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I t's time to get the band back together once again, because Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's seminal musical, The Blues ...
But Devereux bought in, and in his Jake and Elwood-inspired garb, he’s now on the grounds of the prison turned museum where the opening scenes of 1980’s The Blues Brothers were filmed ...
Even casual fans of “The Blues Brothers” know the scene. A patrolman pulls over Jake and Elwood Blues in their Bluesmobile. The officer keys in the tag number and divines that Elwood’s ...
14. Lorne Michaels, creator of “SNL,” was iffy on the Blues Brothers, so Belushi and Aykroyd first became Jake and Elwood with the “SNL” band, warming up the live show. 15. Two-and-a-half ...
And the Blues Brothers, the fictional ones, were very much of the city. When Elwood retrieves Jake from Joliet Prison at the start of the film, their eventual destination is a flophouse apartment ...
The movie wastes no time establishing how passionate the Blues Brothers are about music by revealing why Elwood drives a used police car now. Jake is initially angry to learn that he no longer has ...
In fact, one of them is actually my dad. I’ve helped him sharpie ‘ELWOOD’ onto his knuckles before Blues Brothers shows with ‘Brother Zee’, I’ve walked behind him as he’s made his ...
Jake and Elwood are back! On Tuesday, the family of The Blues Brothers‘ Dan Aykroyd and the late Judy Belushi-Pisano‘s estate announced they are releasing a graphic novel inspired by the group ...
with one of the Blues Brothers being released from jail. This time around, it's Aykroyd's Elwood Blues, not Belushi's Jake, who has earned his freedom. While Elwood arrived early and was waiting ...
At first, Michaels wasn’t amused by the skit and the Blues Brothers never made it past pre-show rehearsals. But Jake and Elwood finally got their chance in April 1978 when Michaels informed the ...