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At high school, he joined a group called Sky formed by Jimmy Miller, who would go on to produce several Rolling Stones albums.
As a young man he moved to Los Angeles and was in the firmament of the city’s proto-punk scene. He became well known in the Sunset Strip rock clubs with the Sunset Bombers.
He formed the Knack in 1978 and the band played its first gig at the famed Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles in June 1978. The Knack followed up My Sharona with Good Girls Don’t, which reached No 11 in the US. Their debut album Get the Knack sold three million copies in the US alone.
Later singles, She’s So Selfish and Frustrated, and a second album, But the Little Girls Understand, were less successful. After two years of triumph the band suffered a reaction from critics who pointed out that it was distasteful for four men in their late twenties to produce songs that fantasied about schoolgirls. http://www.lfgss.com/thread37839.html
The Knack soon split up but did not quite disappear. They sued the rap band Run-DMC, claiming that its single* It’s Tricky* (1986) sampled My Sharona without permission. In 1994 the band’s signature song appeared on the soundtrack of the cult film Reality Bites and was rereleased as a single. In 2005 it was even cited by President Bush as one of the tracks on his iPod. The Knack even re-formed for the occasional tour until 2005. "
But did they actually write anything else?