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“Firefly Lane” Season 2 has arrived, and with it comes another loaded lineup of signature songs for the seventies, eighties, nineties and early 2000s. Throughout the shifts between three separate timelines in Tully and Kate’s friendship, needle drops help distinguish which part of their lives we’re watching, especially when it gets confusing between the older versions of Kate Mularkey Ryan (Sarah Chalke) and Tully Hart (Katherine Heigl). Kristin Hannah’s 400+ page novel off of which the television show is based uses certain songs and lyrics to introduce the new decades, or parts of the book, like Abba’s “Dancing Queen,” Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield” and more.

Season 2 boasts two Whitney Houston songs — “I’m Every Woman” and “How Will I Know” — Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” The Knack’s “My Sharona,” Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody” and “Closer to Fine” by The Indigo Girls.

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story features the music and public persona of "Weird" Al Yankovic throughout the movie, including some of Al's most famous parodies. The almost entirely fictitious comedy tells the story of Yankovic's rise from humble beginnings to become "perhaps not technically the best, but arguably the most famous accordion player in a specific genre of music." Interestingly, the movie also contains a range of other songs from artists who aren't the movie's focus

While the plot of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a parody of music biopics, it still features the songs Weird Al actually released, and involves some real details from the stories surrounding their creation. Daniel Radcliffe plays Al in the movie, but doesn't actually sing the songs, except for a spoken-word number in the midst of an on-stage breakdown. Instead, the songs in the movie are Weird Al's own renditions.

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Weird Al, a five-time Grammy Award winning musician, burst onto the music scene back in '79 with "My Bologna," a parody of The Knack's hit "My Sharona." Over the past 40 years, he's put his own comedic spin on hits by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Coolio, Miley Cyrus, and countless other billboard topping hits. Now, he's decided to give his own origin story a parodic tilt.

In 2010, Funny or Die released a sketch that was a fake trailer for a delightfully odd biopic called "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story." Thirteen years later, the hilarious sketch is getting the cinematic treatment it deserves. Director Eric...

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Happy 25th anniversary to Reality Bites, the movie that not only defined Generation X but made it cool to make out to “Baby, I Love Your Way” while slurping a Big Gulp. Ben Stiller’s directorial debut encapsulated what it was like to be a twenty-something in 1994, from Gap promotions and toilet-paper coffee filters to AIDS scares and coming out to your family.

One of the most memorable scenes in the film is when the gang gets stoned and Lelaina (Winona Ryder) suggests they purchase food with her father’s gas card.

By P.J. Huffstutter

Chicago, July 27 (Reuters) - Russell R. Wasendorf Sr., chief executive of Peregrine Financial Group, who was arrested earlier this month after confessing to bilking customers for 20 years, is accused of stealing something else: a rock and roll tune.

On Friday, attorneys for the 1970s rock band The Knack -- famous for its song "My Sharona" -- sent a cease and desist letter to Wasendorf and his now-shuttered Italian restaurant MyVerona in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to stop him from using a re-recording of the tune as part of the eatery's online advertising campaign.

The restaurant had used the song, with the chorus modified to "M-m-m-My Verona," for several years as a theme song on its web site and other online venues, according to local residents and former company employees.

Among other things, the song served as a soundtrack to a video montage shot inside the restaurant, including...

Welcome to the 224th Edition of my blog series. This week I pay tribute to the late lead singer of the Knack Doug Fieger and producer David Brown. I am very excited for the March 2nd release of Peter Gabriel's new album Scratch My Back where he does remakes to twelve of his favorites with the use of an orchestra and his voice. I have heard some samples of the music and sounds pretty good to me...

Fear not; though we were all devastated by the passing of Knack frontman Doug Fieger earlier this week, the art of crafting classic, timeless pop definitely lives on. Need some proof? Hills vixen Heidi Montag has graced the world with not one, but two new songs today, because she loves us all and wants us to be happy. And dancing. "Trash Me" issues a stern warning to the haters who would tarnish Montag's meteoric rise to world domination with their negativity, while "Sex Ed" is a bawdy little romp that promises a wealth of carnal knowledge to any lucky man who...

Doug Fieger, lead singer for the popular 1980's musical group The Knack, has died. After a six year battle with cancer and two brain surgeries, 57 year old Fieger succumbed to the disease at his home in Woodland Hills, California on Sunday, according to the band's manager Jake Hooker. Fieger was best known for singing the mega-hit song My Sharona back in 1979, one year after the band was formed in L.A. The song was #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart for six weeks, and became a pop culture phenomenon. Although The Knack enjoyed huge success with other songs like Frustrated, Good Girls Don't, and She's So Selfish, My Sharona was their ultimate staple, maintaining a steady presence on FM radio. Even though the band continued to produce albums through the early 2000's, they never repeated the popularity they achieved in the 1980's. The Knack appeared on the scene at a time...

Doug Fieger, power pop hitmaker for the Knack, has died at 57 in his Woodland Hills, Calif., home. Best known for the 1979 No. 1 smash "My Sharona," the singer-songwriter had reportedly been battling lung and brain cancer for years. "Sharona" was an obsessively catchy track about one of Fieger's real-life girlfriends, and the bouncy cut off the band's debut album, Get the Knack, scored another jolt of fame in the mid '90s when it appeared on the Reality Bites soundtrack. In January, in one of Fieger's last interviews, the Detroit-born rocker sounded at peace when he told the Detroit News: "Everybody knows they're going sooner or later. I don't know any better than...

Doug Fieger, The Knack lead singer who co-wrote the new-wave band's biggest hit, "My Sharona," has died. He was 57.

Fieger died Sunday at his Woodland Hills, Calif., home after a battle with cancer.

"Our hearts are broken, we will miss you, Doug," the band wrote on its website.

A year after forming The Knack, Fieger co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the group's 1979 international smash "My Sharona." The riff-heavy tune, from the album Get the Knack, was inspired ...

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Woodland Hills, Calif. — Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57. Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack's manager, Jake Hooker. Fieger formed The Knack in Los Angeles 1978, and the group quickly became a staple of Sunset Strip rock clubs. A year later he co-wrote and sang lead vocals on "My Sharona." Fieger said the song, with its pounding drums and exuberant vocals, was inspired by a girlfriend of four years. "I had never met a girl like her – ever," he told The Associated Press in a 1994 interview. "She induced madness. She was a very powerful presence. She had an insouciance that wouldn't quit. She was very self-assured. ... She also...

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Doug Fieger, lead singer of the Knack, died today following a long battle with cancer. He was 57. The Detroit News, Fieger’s hometown paper, has all the details here. The Knack were great purveyors of power pop. They never rose to the heights of a Cheap Trick or the Raspberries, but for a short time they knew how to combine the perfect pop melody and beat with just the right amount of bite. Think about “My Sharona” or “Good Girls Don’t,” the band’s two biggest hits. “My Sharona” was No. 1 for six weeks in 1979. It’s impossible not to hear...

The Knack's lead singer Doug Fieger, who co-wrote the 1979 hit song "My Sharona," died on Sunday, aged 57, after battling lung cancer for six years.His family said in a statement that Fieger passed away at his home in Woodland Hills, California, after outliving his doctors' prognoses "for many, many years.""Doug did not suffer. He is in a better place. And wherever he is, his love and music will continue to shower down upon all of us who remain in this mortal coil, forever," said his brother Geoffrey Fieger and sister Beth Falkenstein.The other members of the new wave rock band The Knack, that was formed in 1977, paid tribute to the Detroit-born singer/songwriter."Our hearts are broken, we will miss you Doug," they wrote on the band's website Knack.com.Fieger was one of four founding members of The Knack...

Doug Fieger, front man of The Knack, who sang the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Sunday at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles. He was 57.

Fieger, who appeared as Nick on three episodes of Roseanne, battled cancer for six years. He is survived by a sister, Beth Falkenstein, and a brother, attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who is best known for representing assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

We are women, hear us roar. We can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and inspire many a chart-topping song!

10 Songs Inspired by Real WomenLucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The real-life Lucy from the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died at the age of 46. Lucy Vodden was classmates with John Lennon's son, Julian. One day, the young Lennon came home from school with a drawing that he entitled, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds."

Peggy Sue

Buddy Holly wrote his hit "Peggy Sue" about Peggy Sue Gerron, who married Buddy Holly and the Crickets' band member Jerry Allison. Holly actually never had a romantic relationship with Peggy Sue, but he really, really, really liked her name.

It Ain't Me Babe

Bob Dylan wrote "It Ain't Me Babe" about his ugly breakup with former squeeze folksinger, Joan Baez. Baez must've been thrilled.