For Doug Fieger, the secret of songwriting success was to stay in touch with his inner teenager. That meant raging hormones, unrequited love, and girls, girls, girls. “When The Knack started, I wrote ...

Over 30 years ago, a band called The Knack catapulted to stardom with its hit, "My Sharona." It also made a star out of its muse, a woman named — not surprisingly — Sharona. The Knack's lead singer ...

“Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one… When you gonna give me some time, Sharona? Whenever I hear the song, it takes me back to being six years old and the moment I realized I had to share my mom ...

During a 2010 interview with NPR, Alperin discussed meeting Doug Fieger, the lead singer of The Knack. “I was about 16 or 17 at the time,” Alperin said. “He was nine years older than me. “And within a ...

FM radio dials everywhere were turned down halfway on Valentine's Day in honor of Doug Fieger, The Knack frontman who brought the world the unstoppable new wave hit "My Sharona," who passed away that ...

The Knack guitarist Bert Averre presented a new version of their hit “My Sharona” to address the coronavirus epidemic – after acknowledging that "Bye, Corona" had already been done multiple times. The ...

Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti pays tribute to the Knack's hit “My Sharona” by putting on a skinny tie and recreating the song's classic video. Spaghetti and Frank Meyer of the Streetwalkin’ ...

More than 40 years later, the story of the Knack has all the makings of a cautionary tale. It’s a riches-to-rags narrative, with the band achieving a global mega-hit with the 1979 power pop-anthem “My ...

“One-hit wonder” describes many bands that have enjoyed a moment in the spotlight before fading into near-obscurity. One of these was The Knack, whose 1979 hit “My Sharona” became known as “the song ...

The subject of the song "My Sharona" has a knack for real estate. Sharona Alperin was 17 when her name became immortalized with the release of "My Sharona" by The Knack. In an interview with WalletPop ...

During a 2014 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Yankovic said he was a DJ in college. He recalled getting numerous requests to play “My Sharona” in the summer of 1979. He had the “stupid” idea to ...

“Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one… When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?” And with that, the birth of the Knack’s 1979 hit, “My Sharona,” which turned 40 this month. Nary a day goes by ...