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    Knack, The

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    The Knack exemplified AmericanΒ New WaveΒ – a short haired, 60s-influenced band playing straight-ahead pop-rock while sporting skinny ties and modish suits.

    Charting worldwide in 1979 with the catchy, syncopatedΒ My Sharona,Β The Knack were briefly a bona fide pop sensation. The single blared on car radios throughout that summer, and their debut album,Β Get The Knack, sold 5 million copies in the US.

    knack2In the States, the beaty, swinging follow-upΒ Good Girls Don’tΒ stalled just outside the Top 10 but, in the UK, it didn’t even reach the Top 50.

    Because their success was based on one thing (Sharona) they were never allowed to do anything different and the British press – who viewed The Knack suspiciously as bandwagon-jumpers – grew very hostile to the band.

    Suddenly it was all over. The records stopped selling and the girls stopped screaming. Critics began to attack the band’sΒ Beatles-esque packaging as shallow hype and attacked singer-guitarist Doug Fieger for the sexist arrogance of his lyrics.

    By November 1980 The Knack were falling apart. Although they buried the hatchet to recordΒ Round TripΒ (1981), the band gave their final performance at an Acapulco nightclub in December 1981.

    knack_097The Knack were later embraced byΒ Nirvana‘s Kurt Cobain, who rated theΒ Get The KnackΒ album in his Top 20 all-time favourite records, and declared thatΒ Nirvana sounded like “a 90s version ofΒ Cheap TrickΒ or The Knack”.

    The band reformed in 1991 without drummer Bruce Gary, but he rejoined them to make aΒ BadfingerΒ tribute album in 1997.Β Gary passed away in Los Angeles on 22 August 2006, aged 54.

    Doug Fieger (pictured at right) battled brain tumours and lung cancer until his death on 14 February 2010, in Woodland Hills, California. He was 57.

    Doug Fieger
    Vocals, guitar
    Berton Averre
    Guitar
    Prescott Niles
    Bass
    Bruce Gary
    Drums

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