John Warren Geils Jr., the artist known professionally as J. Geils who gave his name to the 1980s rock group he founded, The J. Geils Band, was found dead in his Groton, Mass., home Tuesday. He ...

The J.Geils Band, circa 1981. From left: Seth Justman, Danny Klein, Magic Dick, J.Geils, Peter Wolf and Stephen Bladd. (Photo by Ron Pownall.Getty Images) Getty Images ...

WHO ARE THEY: The J. Geils Band rose to prominence in the 1970s with its bar band mixture of blues, R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. Led by frontman Peter Wolf, ...

Before he was the rambunctious frontman for the J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf was one of the first disc jockeys on WBCN. Holding down the station’s overnight shift in the mid-1960s, just as it was ...

They divorced in 1979, two years before the J. Geils Band broke into the pop mainstream with their massive No. 1 hit "Centerfold." Wolf left the band in 1983 and launched a solo career.

The band could write a country song so convincing it was covered by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris (“Cry One More Time”) and even came up with the first U.S. reggae hit (“Give It To Me”).

Peter Wolf’s new memoir is titled Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, and to hear the former J. Geils Band lead singer tell it, ex-wife Faye Dunaway falls ...