Doug Fieger, The Knack’s Lead Singer Dies at 57

Doug Fieger, with a premature love of the stage and dedicated musical ear, was a scholar at Oak Park’s Clinton Junior High when he developed his first proficient band. This was the launch pad that ultimately took him to the top of the charts.
Doug Fieger, the founder and lead vocalist of pop band ‘Knack’, passed away this morning at the age of 57, at his home in Woodland Hills, Calif. Fieger was suffering from cancer for past six year and his death is attributed to his six-year battle with cancer which the singer lost at last.
Doug was younger brother of eminent attorney Geoffrey Fieger, and was also survived by sister, Beth Falkenstein.
Doug moved to L.A. following the Detroit rock scene, and his 1979 hit “My Sharona” turned him to a millionaire overnight. Though the talented vocalist and guitarist never came up again with that single’s blockbuster sensation, and kept touring continuous under the Knack, counting the last homeland show in July 2003, at DTE Energy Music Theatre.
Fieger soon was incapacitated with brain and lung, and underwent years of deep treatment.
Doug Fieger’s primary aver to eminence was “My Sharona,” an effervescent explosion of pop that spent more than six weeks right on the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 and developed a new genre of music that became popular as power-pop.