Muh-muh-muh My Sarcoma

(Huzzah for Mark)
Doug Fieger, best remembered for singing about his penis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 57. With Fieger as lead singer and guitarist, the Knack hit No. 1 in 1979 with “My Sharona,” but instead of becoming the next Beatles, as the band members aspired to with white shirts, skinny black ties and an album jacket pose recreating a pose from A Hard Day’s Night, the group didn’t even have the staying power of The Be Sharps, as their next biggest hit was “Good Girls Don’t” at No, 11, then “Baby Talks Dirty,” at No. 38. They released another album, then disbanded in 1981, enjoying a brief resurgence in 1994 when My Sharona appeared on the soundtrack of Reality Bites, but not in Pulp Fiction, during the scene where Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames meet the Gimp, as Quentin Taratino intended, but was denied by Fieger.