Blues Brothers Private 1980 1st Perigee Printing + Intact Bound Poster VG 🎷

by Judith Jacklin, Tino Insana

$43 · Offered by eBay

First edition

Blues Brothers: Private Judith Jacklin & Tino Insana Perigee Books / G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980 First Perigee Printing Trade paperback • Unpaginated (~150 pages) • 10.5" × 8" Black-and-white & color illustrations and photos throughout Bound-in poster still attached and never removed On a mission from God… and the orphanage files of Sister Mary Stigmata. This is the original 1980 tie-in that fleshes out the entire Blues Brothers universe just as Jake and Elwood were blasting onto the big screen. Presented as the private paperwork, clippings, report cards, psychological evaluations, and scrapbook materials lovingly (or not-so-lovingly) kept by the Penguin herself, the book invents the full backstory while mixing in real childhood photos of Belushi, Aykroyd, and the band. You get Jake’s birth as Jacob Papageorge, Elwood’s abandonment at a newsstand, the Amish (or Hutterite) past of Steve Cropper, Carrie Fisher’s character named Camille Ztdetelik, and dozens of other deadpan “documents” that feel like they fell out of a Second City sketch and landed in a manila folder. Judith Jacklin (later Belushi-Pisano) was John Belushi’s high-school sweetheart from Wheaton, Illinois, his wife, and the book’s designer and co-author. She later wrote the memoir Samurai Widow and co-authored the definitive Belushi biography. Tino Insana, Belushi’s old friend from the West Compass Players and Second City, brought the same anarchic Chicago comedy sensibility that helped birth the characters on Saturd

• Publisher: Perigree Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Year: 1980
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780399504761
• Condition: Very Good

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