![]() ![]() A&R executives Bruce Garfield and Bruce Ravid are credited with signing the band. The band was pursued by ten record labels, but decided on Capitol Records at the time, the Knack was given the largest signing sum in the label's history. ![]() Within months of their live debut, popular club gigs on the Sunset Strip, as well as guest jams with musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Ray Manzarek, led to the band being the subject of a record label bidding war. Some of these songs later made up the band's debut album Get the Knack, and included " Good Girls Don't". In the meantime, Fieger had been doubling on bass on a series of demos that the group had shopped to several record labels, all of which were rejected. Niles was the last to join, a week before the band's first show in June 1978. Fieger had also known Bruce Gary (drums) for years before forming the Knack in 1978 with Prescott Niles (bass). Shortly after arriving in L.A., Fieger met Berton Averre (lead guitar, backing vocals and keyboards), and the two started a songwriting partnership. As a result, Fieger made the decision to move to Los Angeles and start another band. Although Sky had received a modest amount of acclaim, including being produced by Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller, the band broke up without having any chart success. The brother of attorney Geoffrey Fieger (later known for representing Jack Kevorkian in a series of assisted suicide cases) Fieger had previously played in an eclectic rock band called Sky as well as the Sunset Bombers. Singer Doug Fieger was a native of Oak Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the 9 Mile/Greenfield area. A final album, Rock & Roll Is Good for You: The Fieger/Averre Demos was released in 2012. Following Fieger's death in 2010, the Knack permanently disbanded. After a brief reunion in 1994, the Knack reunited again in 1996, recording two more albums, Zoom (1998) and Normal as the Next Guy (2001). The band reunited in 1986, and released their fourth album Serious Fun in 1991, before breaking up again the following year. Faced with diminishing success, the group disbanded in 1982. But The Little Girls Understand (1980) and Round Trip (1981), were significantly less successful. Spearheaded by the success of the "My Sharona" single, their first album, Get the Knack (1979), reached number-one on the charts of several countries. It was this lineup that recorded the group's first three albums. The Knack was founded in 1978 with the original and classic lineup of Doug Fieger (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Berton Averre (lead guitar, backing vocals), Prescott Niles (bass) and Bruce Gary (drums). The Knack was an American rock band based in Los Angeles that rose to fame with its first single, " My Sharona", an international number-one hit in 1979. ![]()
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