The song Centerfold by J. Geils Band is about a guy who had a crush on a sweet, innocent girl in his homeroom in high school. Years later, he's looking through a girly magazine and sees his homeroom crush as the centerfold, and it rocks his world - no longer is she the innocent girl in a fuzzy sweater that he dreamed about. Rather than being titillated, he is disappointed, as his "memory has been sold."
Centerfold was written by the band's keyboard player Seth Justman under the album "Freeze-Frame" and was released in 1981.
Freeze Frame was the band's third album with EMI; they signed with the label leaving Atlantic. In earlier years, the band chose their singles, but EMI picked "Centerfold" as the lead single and were handsomely rewarded when it went to US #1 for a startling six weeks and also helped send the album to the top spot.
This song was used in the movies Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), The Watch (2012) and Grown Ups 2 (2013). It also appeared in episodes of The King of Queens (2000), The Office (2008) and Glee (2013).