Doug Fieger, famous as the composer of “My Sharona,” has died. His band was called the Knack. It was the very definition of a one-hit wonder. Fieger was from Detroit. His brother Geoffrey Fieger was Jack Kevorkian’s lawyer.

UPDATE: Several readers are saying this:

“My Sharona” was NOT a one hit wonder. The follow up single “Good Girls Don’t” went to #11 on Billboard and the album spent 5 weeks at #1. At least two other songs on it got significant AOR airplay.

UPDATE #2:

Yeah, YOU are right and not your correspondent, The Knack was a one-hit wonder despite the minor follow-up “Good Girls Don’t.” I’ll give you a dollar for every time you hear “Good Girls” on the radio for the rest of your life and it’ll cost me maybe two bucks.
Have you heard the entire album, “Get the Knack”? It’s a *great* record, still stands up completely today, instrumentation like REM, lyrics that aren’t obtuse. It’s what New Wave might have been if the synthesizer thing hadn’t happened.