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More than 20 years ago, Peter Wolf, the former front man of the J. Geils Band, drove across town to see his buddy David Bieber, a local media figure known for his equally nocturnal habits. It was past ...

Peter Wolf has been thinking about writing a book “for a long time.” But making a new solo album is what really prompted the former J. Geils Band frontman to get serious about it. Wolf also received a ...

Once upon a time, Peter Wolf was known as the Woofa Goofa Mama Toofa. Truth is, Wolf is still the Woofa Goofa and always will be. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The Boston-based singer ...

“Wolf was born in the Bronx, New York. He planned a career as an artist, but he got a job in the late 1960s as a disc jockey on then-cutting edge Boston FM radio station WBCN and began exploring his ...

After 57 years of performing on rock stages around the world, with the J. Geils Band and on his own, Peter Wolf has become well-known and much loved — as the self-proclaimed “woofa goofa with the ...

Peter Wolf, has always been one of the great rock & roll raconteurs, ever since his days as the loudmouth singer of the J. Geils Band. But the Boston blues madman has finally written the book everyone ...

Peter Wolf, the dynamic rock and blue-eyed soul frontman singer for the J. Geils Band, who co-wrote some of the band’s most popular songs such as “Love Stinks,” and “Must Of Got Lost,” is gearing up ...

There’s nothing quite like chatting with Peter Wolf. An energetic storyteller who puts as much time into being a fan of music as he does creating it. And that’s not always the case. Some musicians ...

Some people exude such innate charisma that others seem inexorably drawn to them—and Peter Wolf certainly seems to have that particular gift, as evidenced by his remarkable memoir, Waiting on the Moon ...

One Cambridge afternoon, Peter Wolf wanted to take buddy Van Morrison to lunch at a local Irish pub. They walked into The Plough and Stars at 2:32 p.m., only to be told by a bartender that lunch ended ...

“To be on this last tour was such a thrill,” singer Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band said, reflecting on his working vacation this past summer as an opening act – with his solo group, the Midnight ...