RIP Doug Fieger

Lead singer of The Knack. Passed away of cancer today. He was 57.

http://detnews.com/article/20100214/METRO/2140317/Knack-lead-singer-Doug-Fieger-dies-of-cancer

 

Fuckabuncha cancer. RIP.

While "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" were hits off the debut, the rest of the album wasn't bad either. Here's one of my favorites:

 

I was 13 when that album came out. The Knack gets wrongly pegged as a one-hit wonder. I don't think "Good Girls Don't" was as big a hit as "My Sharona", but it was a hit nonetheless.

The other thing I remember about The Knack is that they were marketed as an American Beatles. That didn't work out so well, but they did catch lightning in a bottle with that debut.

 

Bummer. The Detroit media had mentioned recently that he was very ill. His brother, Geoffrey, is the best-known attorney in Michigan.

 

Wow, so they are related. My Sharona is perhaps the best "one-hit wonder" song ever, and there was a Sharona the song was based on, and she apparently was never won over by Doug. R.I.P.

 

Relatively minor follow-ups to monster hits do not count when considering a one-hit wonder. No song other than My Sharona will be mentioned in or near the lede of any Fieger obit.

 

It was the title track of a second album that was far less successful than the first. And the song was not a phenomenon the way My Sharona is. The working definition of "one-hit wonder" is not strictly tied to how many songs of a group made the Billboard chart.

 

Don't you go making this about Felipe Lopez again.