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[krispyweiss]

J. Giles Dead at 71

J. Giles, the namesake guitarist of the J. Giles Band, was found dead in his Massachusetts home April 11, Billboard magazine reported.

No cause of death was given.

Giles was with the “Love Stinks” band from its 1967 founding until its initial breakup in 1985. He participated in its periodic reunions between 1999 and 2012, at which point the J. Giles Band - most associated with charismatic harmonica player Magic Dick and frontman Peter Wolf - carried on without J. Giles.

“We all thought it was you in the ‘Centerfold’ video,” former MTV personality Martha Quinn tweeted after Giles’ death was reported.

The band issued 11 studio albums between 1970 and 1984. Those records spawned classic-rock radio warhorses like “Give it to Me," "Whammer Jammer" and “Must of Got Lost” in the 1970s and megahits such as the aforementioned “Centerfold” and “Freeze-Frame" in the ‘80s.

Giles was 71.

4/11/17

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Seth Justman (born January 27, 1951) is the keyboard player for the U.S. rock band, The J. Geils Band.

Justman was born in Washington, D.C. He co-wrote many of the band's songs with singer Peter Wolf, and took sole songwriting credits for the band's biggest international hit, "Centerfold" (#1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100). Justman also became the band's main vocalist once Wolf left the J. Geils Band in 1983 until the band's first break-up in 1985.

In 1986, Justman produced and partly co-wrote Rockbird, the second solo album by Debbie Harry.[1]

Seth is the brother of Paul Justman, director of the 2002 movie, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.[2] Paul and Seth shared songwriting credits for most of the songs on J. Geils Band's 1984 album.

According to Hadassah Magazine, Justman "grew up in Atlantic City," and is also Jewish.[3][4][5]