Doug Fieger obituary

Founder member of the American band the Knack and co-writer of their hit My SharonaFor a couple of months in late 1979, My Sharona, by the Knack, crowded out almost every other pop song from the airwaves of north America and western Europe. The song was co-written by Doug Fieger, who has died of cancer, aged 57.He was born in Detroit, learning piano at the age of five and taking trumpet lessons at 11. When the Beatles and other British Invasion groups arrived in America he took up the guitar, ev...

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