‘Jeopardy’ singer Greg Kihn dead at 75 following Alzheimer’s battle
nypost.comthe Hollywood Reporter. His family did not wish to disclose the location of his death.Kihn helped define the 1980s power-pop era with his blend of folk, classic rock, blues and melodic pop.The singer’s first hit, “The Breakup Song,” reached No.
15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981. Kihn reached new heights in 1983, with “Jeopardy” becoming an instant classic. The song reached No.
2 on the Billboard Hot 100, while “Weird Al” Yankovic parodied it, titling his version “I Lost on Jeopardy.”Kihn was grateful to Yankovic for lending his song even more staying power over the years.“I loved his version of ‘I Lost on Jeopardy,’” he said in a 2018 interview with Music Recall Magazine. “It was a brilliant parody.
Al is a super talented musician. He invited me to appear in his video and I had a ball. God bless that man! I still get mailbox money from Weird Al!”Kihn was one of many artists to come out of the Bay Area label Beserkley Records in the mid-1970s.The songwriter released his first song as a solo artist in 1976 on the famous compilation “Beserkley Chartbusters Vol.
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