Sleepless (2002) featured guest appearances from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and was highly praised by Rolling Stone. His album Long Line (1996) and Fool's Parade (1998) started his collaboration with singer/songwriter Kenny White producing. A later single titled 'Can't Get Started' also had wide radio play. In 1987, Wolf released his second solo album Come as You Are, with the title track notching Wolf another top-15 hit on the pop chart and a number one hit on the Mainstream Rock Chart. In 1985, Wolf duetted with Aretha Franklin on the track 'Push' from her album Who's Zoomin' Who? and also appeared on the Artists United Against Apartheid song, ' Sun City'. The single 'Lights Out' written with Don Covay became a hit the same year, peaking at No. Smith, Elliot Randall, Yogi Horton, Mick Jagger, Elliot Easton, and Maurice Starr. Wolf's first solo record Lights Out (1984) was produced with Michael Jonzun, of the Jonzun Crew, and featured Adrian Belew, G. In the ensuing years the band has been nominated five times for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Following the success of Freeze Frame, the other band members wanted to take the band in a new pop direction musically, but Wolf wanted to stick to a more roots-based direction so he was asked to leave in 1983. They toured stadiums with the Rolling Stones and others. During the early days of MTV, the band enjoyed heavy airplay of their videos ' Centerfold' and ' Love Stinks'. Wolf and keyboardist Seth Justman were responsible for most of the band's songwriting. His show became a popular late night staple where he interviewed many of the well-known rock, blues, and jazz artists that were touring through Boston in the late 1960s. Дuring his time performing with the Hallucinations, Wolf was asked to help establish Boston's radio station WBCN and became their first all-night deejay creating the moniker 'Woofa Goofa' as his on-air personality. During this period, they appeared on bills with The Velvet Underground, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison (who became close with Wolf while residing in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts), John Lee Hooker, and Sun Ra. They performed at nightclubs in the Combat Zone area of Boston and developed a large following as one of the first bands to play at the Boston Tea Party. In 1964, Wolf and fellow art students Paul Shapiro (guitar), Doug Slade (guitar), Joe Clark (bass), and Stephen Jo Bladd (drums) formed a group called The Hallucinations. His first roommate was film director David Lynch. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts on scholarship, where he studied painting. He often attended the Apollo, seeing many of the famous soul, rhythm & blues, and gospel artists who influenced him. He attended the High School of Music & Art, located in west Harlem near the Apollo Theater.

Wolf and Justman, who would become the groupвЂ™s principal songwriters, joined in 1969.Peter Wolf was born Peter W. Geils Band, beginning in 1967 or so, when Geils, Klein, and Magic Dick performed as the J. The lawsuit lays out the long history of the J. вЂњHe did this and nobody knew about it,вЂ™вЂ™ Weinberger said.

Weinberger said Geils sought the trademark without telling Wolf or the others. Geils BandвЂ™вЂ™ trademark in 2008, and was awarded it a year later. Geils applied to the US Patent and Trademark Office for the вЂњJ. In a statement, the band said the split was the result of an вЂњongoing legal disputeвЂ™вЂ™ between Geils and the other members over the rights to the name J. James Weinberger, the attorney for the other band members, said Wednesday he hadnвЂ™t seen the lawsuit and could not comment.ДЇans of the band were more than a little confused last month when the band, whose hits include вЂњMusta Got LostвЂ™вЂ™ and вЂњFreeze-Frame,вЂ™вЂ™ announced plans to tour without their namesake. GeilsвЂ™s band, but that doesnвЂ™t give them the right to grab the name.вЂ™вЂ™ Geils has this trademark and never transferred it to anybody,вЂ™вЂ™ said attorney Chuck Grimes, who represents Geils.

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