Original Release Year – 1983 (me aged 7)
Very bizarre that a song about a college girl turned soft porn star should grab my attention at the age of 7, but then there’s no accounting for taste at that age. I didn’t possess the record itself, so the only place I could have seen it was on Top Of The Pops. In fact pretty much all my early musical upbringing came through that one show. What sticks in my mind is Peter Wolf climbing all over classroom chairs, something that must have seemed very appealing at that age. Having just watched the video again, I have no recollection at all of the women in lingerie.
I’m not sure why this was a particular purple patch for my musical education, but I have a fond memory for contemporary tracks like “Abracadabra” by the Steve Miller Band and “I Love Rock N Roll” by Joan Jett. But “Centrefold” is all the more strange as the J Geils Band pretty much vanished without trace in the UK. Maybe it's because all songs with whistling in are cool. It was all the more surprising to come across it on a CD entitled “Let’s Rock! With Smashey and Nicey” in an Asda in Scotland (opening line “Pop-a-doodle-doo gherkins, Mad Mike Smash here”. I don’t remember being so chuffed to find a song on a CD in my life.
The video is great but embedding is forbidden, so come find it here
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