{"id":320490,"date":"2010-02-15T01:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93206"},"modified":"2010-02-15T01:45:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:45:31","slug":"don-fieger-the-knack-%e2%80%9cmy-sharona%e2%80%9d-singer-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/320490","title":{"rendered":"Don Fieger, The Knack \u201cMy Sharona\u201d Singer, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Fieger, rocker and lead singer of the ’70s\/’80s pop-rock band The Knack, has died. <\/p>\n

The Detroit native, best remembered for the 1979 hit \u201cMy Sharona,\u201d died at his Woodland Hills, California home Sunday after a six year battle against lung cancer spread to his brain, The Knack\u2019s manager, Jake Hooker, told The Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He was 57.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Fieger formed The Knack in Los Angeles in 1978. A year later, he co-wrote and sang lead vocals on \u201cMy Sharona” — after being rebuffed by a gorgeous girl of the same name. She was 17 and in high school at the time — Fieger was 26. The two eventually got together, but split four years later. Today, Sharona Alperin is a Los Angeles real estate agent. Easily recognizable by its pounding drums and polarizing guitar solo, the song became an instant smash, spending six weeks atop the Billboard 200 and later being parodied by Weird Al Yankovic. The song was even sampled by rap pioneers Run-DMC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never met a girl like her \u2014 ever,\u201d<\/em> Fieger told The AP in 1994. \u201cShe induced madness. She was a very powerful presence. She had an insouciance that wouldn\u2019t quit. She was very self-assured. \u2026 She also had an overpowering scent, and it drove me crazy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Don Fieger is survived by his brother Geoffrey and sister Beth, who remembered their brother in a joint press statement issued Sunday: “Doug did not suffer. He is in a better place. And wherever he is, his love and music will continue to shower down upon all of us who remain in this mortal coil, forever.”<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/img><\/a>
\n<\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Fieger, rocker and lead singer of the ’70s\/’80s pop-rock band The Knack, has died. The Detroit native, best remembered for the 1979 hit \u201cMy Sharona,\u201d died at his Woodland Hills, California home Sunday after a six year battle against lung cancer spread to his brain, The Knack\u2019s manager, Jake Hooker, told The Associated Press. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}