Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf (born Peter W. Blankfield; March 7, 1946) is an American rhythm and blues, soul and rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and for a successful solo career with writing partner Will Jennings. Wolf married the actress Faye Dunaway in 1974. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979.
Life and career
Wolf was born in the Bronx, New York. He planned a career as an artist, but he got a job in the late 1960s as a disc jockey on Boston FM radio station WBCN and began exploring his interest in blues and rhythm and blues music, giving himself the nickname "the Wolfa Goofa", sometimes expanded to "the Wolfa Goofa with the Green Teeth" (as mentioned in the intro to the minor hit "Musta Got Lost", from the J. Geils Band's album Blow Your Face Out). Later, as a solo artist, he called himself "Woofa Goofa Mama Toofa". Wolf, Doug Slade, Joe Clark, Paul Shapiro, and Stephen Jo Bladd formed a group, the Hallucinations, which performed with the Velvet Underground, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker, and Sun Ra. He then saw the J. Geils Blues Band in concert and quickly joined in 1967. He was the vocalist and frontman and often acted as a sort of manager for the group. Wolf was known for his charismatic stage antics of fast-talking quips and "pole-vaulting" with the microphone stand. He and keyboard player Seth Justman were responsible for most of the songwriting. Creative differences followed their album Freeze Frame, causing Wolf to part ways with the J. Geils Band in 1983.
Peter Wolf (disambiguation)
Peter Wolf is an American musician.
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Peter Wolf (producer)
Peter F. Wolf (born August 26, 1952, Vienna, Austria) is a composer, producer, songwriter and arranger. In 2002, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst). Peter Wolf is married to fashion model and songwriter Lea Wolf-Millesi.
Early years
Wolf studied classical piano at Vienna’s Conservatory of Music. At the age of 16, he won the European Jazz Festival as a solo pianist. Wolf was awarded twice with the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, a German award, for his work with Andre Heller and Erika Pluhar.
Coming to America in his early twenties, Wolf worked with local musicians such as Neal Starkey (bassist) and Bill Hatcher (guitarist) in Atlanta, Georgia and with Steve Sample, Jr. (drummer, son of Steve Sample, Sr.) and Ray Reach (keyboardist, guitarist, vocalist) in Birmingham, Alabama.
After his time in the southeastern United States, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he played keyboards for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s. After his work with Zappa, he then went on to the band Group 87 with Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Peter Maunu, and Mark Isham.
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Peter Wolf
ALBUMS
- Widows released: 1998
Widows
Released 1998- Here and Now
- Happy Birthday to Me
- Fallen Angels and Butterfly Kisses
- The Dawning of Eric
- Martial Scenes
- The Widow Theory
- Maria Comes to Terms
- Requiem KV 626: Lacrimosa
- Refrigerator Tales
- The Seduction
- Requiem KV 626: Requiem Aeternam
- An Uncertain Fate
- The Ride Home
- Returning From Cannes
- A Dialogue Goes Sour
- Charles' End
- Mass in E-Flat D 950: Kyrie
- Vita Mia
Peter Wolf
ALBUMS
- Midnight Souvenirs released: 2010
- Sleepless released: 2002
- Fool's Parade released: 1998
- Long Line released: 1996
- Up To No Good released: 1990
- Come as You Are released: 1987
- Lights Out released: 1984
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Five O'clock Angel
by: Peter WolfThe day is gone
And I'm just drifting on
Same old song
Comes to haunt me till she comes
Five o'clock angel
Whispers like a reverie
Five o'clock angel
Sings a secret song to me
To some secret part of me
The world goes blue
And I don't know what to do
And I think of you
How you always get me through
Five o'clock angel
Whispers like a reverie
Five o'clock angel
Sings a secret song to me
To some secret part of me
Blue night the floatin' on the light
So right on and after heaven's laughter
Five o'clock angel
Whispers like a reverie
Five o'clock angel
Sings a secret song to me
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