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J GEILS BAND ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

James Romag

ISBN 978-1-78952-332-4

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Publication: 25 JULY 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523324
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789522624 REO Speedwagon
On Track

• Best known in the UK for their 1985 number
one hit 'Centerfold' and the album Freeze
Frame
• Considerable success worldwide including in
Europe

The J. Geils Band were the original Bad Boys from Boston,
getting down to it and blowing your face out every night.
With classic albums like Full House, Bloodshot, Love
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ Stinks, and the massively successful Freeze-Frame, Geils
have been nominated for the US Rock and Roll Hall of
No doubt about it, James Romag knows what a J. Geils party is all Fame no fewer than five times since 2005. From their early
about. He's a lifelong music fan and enjoys hot, sweaty live concerts days as R&B and blues purists, through defining tracks like
where music is blastin' and everybody's havin' a ball. He worked in 'Looking for a Love,' the instrumental 'Whammer Jammer,'
several record shops while attending the college of musical and the US Top 40 'Give It to Me,' to global fame with radio
knowledge and holds degrees in journalism, finance and marketing, staples' Love Stinks,’ 'Centerfold,' and 'Freeze-Frame,' The
and publishing, has edited several books, and published a handful of J. Geils Band created a unique sound and turned every
short stories. James is a US Air Force veteran who lives in Colorado show into a house party. Though it took time for record
at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. This is his second book for sales to catch up to their live reputation, by the early 1980s
Sonicbond's on track series. there were few hotter act than J. Geils.

The definitive companion to the music of this hard drivin'
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP band, The J. Geils Band – on track is a comprehensive
T: 01404 515050 overview of every track on Geils' 11 studio albums, with a
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com look at their official live releases and a rundown of the

Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. musicians' projects beyond the band. on track makes clear
Email: orders@combook.co.uk why Geils, often referred to as America's answer to The
Phone: 01892 837171 Rolling Stones, were the funkiest band in the land.

Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change
without notice. 08/02/2024