These types of stories would lead to Wolf writing his memoir, “Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters and Goddesses” (out now), which had been years in the making.

“Moon” is a memoir that doesn’t want to be. An all-killer-no-filler collection of wild tales, with Wolf as the Forrest Gump figure, both bearing witness and taking part in the action.

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses finds the rocker getting candid about his split with the J. Geils Band and "adventures" with ex-wife Faye Dunaway.

The band — which played sporadic reunion shows, with Wolf, between 1999 and 2015 — serves as a through-line for “Waiting on the Moon” as the singer recounts his assorted adventures.

Peter Wolf is perhaps best known as the former frontman of The J. Geils Band. But that’s only a fraction of his story. In his memoir “Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters ...

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses by Peter Wolf is out now. MT: Ha! Well, gibberish is my native tongue.

Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, by Peter Wolf (Little-Brown, 335 pp., $30). In his elegant memoir of postwar Greenwich Village life, When Kafka Was the Rage, ...

A framed gold record of the J. Geils Band’s 1980 album, “Love Stinks,” hangs in the back room of McSorley’s Old Ale House, on East Seventh Street. It’s there because Peter Wolf, then the ...