J. Geils Band: Freeze Frame (EMI America)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 13 February 1982
THE AMERICAN rock show business appears to have discovered some uncanny knack of bringing wilderness-bound rock groups back into the limelight. No one could have been more surprised than the present writer to find The J. Geils Band so suddenly suspended at the top of the U.S. charts.
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