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Arts > Music > Rock > USA > John Geils Jr. 1946-2017
J. Geils and Danny Klein of the J. Geils Band performing in 1972 in Copenhagen.
Photograph: Jorgen Angel Redferns, via Getty Images
J. Geils, Whose Band’s Catchy Pop Hits Colored the 1980s, Dies at 71 NYT APRIL 11, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/
John Geils Jr. 1946-2017
guitarist who lent his name to the J. Geils Band, which in the early 1980s produced a series of continuously played, catchy pop hits like “Love Stinks,” “Freeze Frame” and, especially, “Centerfold,”
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Mr. Geils’s name was originally formed in the mid-1960s as Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels while Mr. Geils attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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It switched focus in 1967, recruiting the energetic frontman and lead singer Peter Wolf and becoming the J. Geils Blues Band, with “blues” later being dropped.
The band spent years establishing roots in the Boston area before signing with Atlantic Records in 1970 and emerging on the national stage a year later.
After enjoying some acclaim in the 1970s, the band became a major commercial success in the early 1980s, with the hits “Love Stinks,” “Freeze Frame” and “Centerfold,” which blended blues harmonies with bouncy synthesized pop.
“Centerfold” spent six weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, while “Freeze Frame” reached the No. 4 spot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/12/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/11/
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