LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-FEB 14, 2020…DOUG FIEGER WAS THE LEAD VOCALIST AND RHYTHM GUITARIST FOR ‘THE KNACK.’ HE ALSO WROTE ‘MY SHARONA’, THE BIGGEST SELLING SONG OF 1979. ‘MY SHARONA’ WAS SO BIG, CAPITOL RECORDS SAID IT WAS THEIR BIGGEST DEBUT SINGLE SINCE THE BEATLES DEBUT ‘I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND’ IN 1964. HE WROTE THE SONG FOR SHARONA ALPERIN. THEY DATED FOR 4 YEARS, BEFORE BREAKING UP. ALPERIN WAS WITH FIEGLER FOR THE LAST WEEK OF HIS LIFE. HE DIED OF LUNG CANCER FEBRUARY 14, 2010 AT THE AGE OF 57.
HERE’S ‘THE KNACK’ FROM A SHOW IN 1979 WHEN THE SONG WAS #1 IN AMERICA
