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{{Infobox song

| name = Centerfold

| cover = Centerfold.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = The J. Geils Band

| album = Freeze Frame

| B-side = Rage in the Cage

| released = September 13, 1981

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre =

| length = 3:36
5:01 (12")

| label = EMI America

| writer = Seth Justman

| producer = Seth Justman

| prev_title = Just Can't Wait

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = Freeze-Frame

| next_year = 1982

}}

"'Centerfold'" is 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 appeared in a centerfold spread for an unspecified men's magazine. The song's narrator is torn between conflicting feelings: his disappointment due to her loss of innocence, and his lust until the end of the song.

The song was the band's biggest hit and the only one in the top of the US charts. It was released in autumn 1981, and eventually went to number one on the US 'Billboard' Hot 100 in February 1982, and stayed there for six weeks. It was the first single released from the album 'Freeze Frame' and the music video for the song was an early staple on recently launched MTV. It also peaked at number one in Australia and Canada.

In February 1982, after the song hit No. 1 in the US, "Centerfold" peaked at No. 3 in the UK Top 40, earning the J. Geils Band their only major hit single in the UK, although follow-up "Freeze-Frame" would also peak within the top 40 at No. 27. The song is one of the on-disc songs on the 2010 music video game 'Rock Band 3'.

In 2018, the song was ranked at No. 66 on 'Billboard's All Time Top Songs. 'Ultimate Classic Rock' critic Michael Gallucci rated it to be the band's all-time greatest song.

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See also



* List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s

* List of RPM number-one singles of 1982

* List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1982 (U.S.)

* List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)

References




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