Posted on 01/16/2024 3:24:31 PM PST by DallasBiff
For about eight months in 1979, the Knack was a pop sensation. Its debut album, Get the Knack, sold 5 million copies, while “My Sharona” blared on car radios throughout the summer. The band’s brash sound and Fab Four affectations seemed to incite Knackmania overnight.
Then, suddenly, it was all over. The records stopped selling, and the girls stopped screaming. The Knack’s strict no-interview and no-TV policy backfired; critics dismissed the band’s Beatlesque packaging as shallow hype and attacked singer-guitarist Doug Fieger for the sexist arrogance of his lyrics. By November 1980 the Knack had fallen apart. Although the band reunited to cut Round Trip, the Knack gave its final performance at an Acapulco nightclub in December 1981
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They helped to kill disco, I will always be grateful to them for that.
In keeping with tradition, I didn’t read the article, but I know thatFeiger’s brother was an attorney for Jack Kevorkian.
Where are they now?? Hopefully as far away from musical instruments as humanely possible.
38 year old article, though interesting.
Didn’t the lead singer pass away?
This is an article from 1986. Lead singer Doug Fieger died in 2010.
The article is from 1986 so it’s a bit out of date on “Where Are They Now”. Thanks for posting... Cheers!
My Sharona has one of the all time great guitar solos.
Anyone remember the parody of My Sharona?
“Ayatollah” [1979] by “Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inQiIkz7J5Y
So long as we are recalling ancient history, I loved the Richard Lester film “The Knack,” starring Rita Tushingham.
Or Weird Al's parody, My Bologna"?
LOL I haven’t seen that one before! Too funny
The guys that didn’t like disco liked The Knack.
Thought you were talking about “My Bologna” by Weird Al :P
Where are they? Hopefully in a soup kitchen with Steve Forbert.
We twisted the words around a little bit. We would say “My Scroootum.”
And here she is back in the day:
Headlights on "bright". Pretty girl, pretty woman.
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