The Knack: Where Are They Now?

Rolling Stone ^ | ? | David Fricke

[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

[AlaskaErik]

Sharona went on to become a successful real estate agent. In one interview many years after the song came out she said she was thankful the song told the world how to correctly pronounce her name.

[crusty old prospector]

I don’t ever remember hearing that. I guess we had heard it elsewhere.

[Hot Tabasco]

Doug Fieger was the brother of that ambulance chasing, sleaze bag attorney Geoffrey Fieger.

[packrat35]

Good Girls Don’t was the best song of theirs.

[packrat35]

That was Al’s first. I remember playing it on when I was a radio DJ.