The Knack Music Group

Maybe you didn't know Bruce Gary. But I guarantee if you were capable of conscious thought in the summer of 1979, you knew Bruce Gary's handiwork. You may, in fact, have been driven to the brink of insanity by it. Da da boom, da da boom, da boom, da da boom.... No? Let me supply the lyric: "M-M-M-My Sharona!" That was the Knack and that was Bruce Gary, the band's original drummer, who died of cancer Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 55.

Maybe you didn't know Bruce Gary. But I guarantee if you were capable of conscious thought in the summer of 1979, you knew Bruce Gary's handiwork. You may, in fact, have been driven to the brink of insanity by it. Da da boom, da da boom, da boom, da da boom.... No? Let me supply the lyric: "M-M-M-My Sharona!" That was the Knack and that was Bruce Gary, the band's original drummer, who died of cancer Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 55.

The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger, perhaps best known for the 1979 hit "My Sharona," underwent brain surgery in L.A. on Thursday. Fieger, 53, had two tumors removed during the operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, publicist Guy McCain said. Dr. John Yu said the surgery was successful and Fieger was expected to have a full recovery, McCain said in a statement.

The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger, perhaps best known for the 1979 hit "My Sharona," underwent brain surgery in L.A. on Thursday. Fieger, 53, had two tumors removed during the operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, publicist Guy McCain said. Dr. John Yu said the surgery was successful and Fieger was expected to have a full recovery, McCain said in a statement.

The Knack is back. Like some weird, foggy memory from a long-forgotten dream, like a living reincarnation of simpler and more naive times, it has returned. The original, meteoric rise and fall of the prototype "power pop" group was unusually extreme, even by today's fickle, rock 'n' roll flavor-of-the-month standards.

The Knack is back. Like some weird, foggy memory from a long-forgotten dream, like a living reincarnation of simpler and more naive times, it has returned. The original, meteoric rise and fall of the prototype "power pop" group was unusually extreme, even by today's fickle, rock 'n' roll flavor-of-the-month standards.