A loser picks up a porno mag at his neighborhood newsstand and discovers that an old girlfriend (or perhaps just a high school crush) has spread her legs in the centerfold. The incident affects him deeply ("my memory has just been sold"), but he purchases the magazine anyway. Very average looking "sluts" dance around in skimpy lingerie during the whole drama.

Remember how this song-along with the band's other surprising hit, "Freeze-Frame" - rang through your hollow ears during the early 1980s like a plague of starving locusts? I feel sorry for anyone who actually ran out and bought this dreck after viewing the video on MTV about 10,000 times. The quality values on this thing were definitely bottom of the barrel, making it look exactly like some cheap porno flick from the late 1970s (sans the nudity). Apparently, "Centerfold" was shot in the middle of the night at some elementary school. Worst of all, the "strippers" in this video look like they would have a hard time making it into the pages of Hustler's "Beaver Hunt."

Formed way back in 1967, the band toured for years trying to hit the big time and then took a nosedive within a couple of years of achieving success. Lead singer Peter Wolf hit the road and the J. Geils Band disbanded in 1985. However, as usual with these bands that hit it big on MTV in the early 1980s, the J. Geils Band just won't go away. They reunited in the late 1990s (sometimes playing under bogus names like "Juke Joint Jimmy") and are scheduled to appear soon at the Holiday Inn bar near you.

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