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Doug Fieger, 57, one-time lead singer of the rock group The Knack, has died after a long battle with cancer:
Fieger sang lead vocals on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," which held the No. 1 spot for six weeks.
He attended Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School in Oak Park and Oak Park High School.
Fieger was living in Woodland Hills, Calif. and was being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
"Everybody knows they're going sooner or later," Fieger told Detroit News columnist Neal Rubin in a January interview. "I don't know any better than anyone else when I'm going.
"I've had 10 great lives. And I expect to have some more. I don't feel cheated in any way, shape or form."
The official Knack website will have an obituary soon.
He was survived by a brother and sister:
Fieger was a Detroit rocker with a British heart, driven by a lifelong love of English bands such as the Beatles and the Who.
"I always believed he was really channeling Lennon-McCartney every time he opened his mouth onstage," said Weiss. "But I also think a single like ‘My Sharona' is every bit a Detroit record as anything else, with that bad-ass beat, that kind of direct sensuality. It was pretty hardball stuff for a band that was three-quarters Los Angeles and one part Detroit."
Even as a teen, Weiss said, Fieger "was already walking the walk, already looking beyond 9 Mile and Coolidge.
"I don't know where he got it from, but he was self-educated. guy who went from high school to Hollywood without passing go. He had this passion combined with a blind confidence that he was going to be a star."
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