Peter Wolf, known best as the frontman for J. Geils Band, which ascended to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 with the irresistible “Centerfold,” made a career out of being at the right place at the right time. Growing up in New York City, attending college in Boston and becoming ensconced in the worlds of music and art, Wolf was introduced to an incredible cast of luminaries figures — and earned more than enough anecdotes to fill a book.

“It all happened by accident,” Wolf tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast of the friendships that filled his life and make his memoir, Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, a lively, fascinating book that only tangentially discusses his career as a recording and touring artist.

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