Centerfold (song)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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The J. Geils Band actually came into WGPR one night and thanked The Electrifying Mojo on air for playing "Flamethrower." Everyone else in the country was playing "Centerfold" and "Freeze Frame." -- webmaster of the website 'Eightheadz'[1] [Feb 2004] |
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"Centerfold" was a single released by The J. Geils Band from their album Freeze Frame. The song is about a man who is shocked to discover that his high school crush did a centerfold spread for a male-oriented magazine. The song could be a reference to actress Angel Tompkins' relationship with Peter Wolf.
It was released in the Fall of 1981, and eventually went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1982, and stayed there for six weeks, and also reached number one on the Rock Tracks chart for three weeks, and on the ARIA Chart in Australia. It was the first single released from the band's album Freeze Frame and was an early staple on MTV. The band's lead singer Peter Wolf revealed on In the Studio with Redbeard that "Angel in Blue" was going to be the album's first single. Then during the "Angel in Blue" video shoot, Peter got a call from the president of EMI America Records suggesting that the band change the single's title to "Centerfold".
