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Greg Kihn, ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘Breakup Song’ Hitmaker, Dies at 75
Greg Kihn, who scored hits in the 1980s with 'Jeopardy' and 'The Breakup Song,' has died at 75.
Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 85, his family announced in a statement. The latter song continues to be part of the public consciousness not just because of its own enduring earworm qualities, but because of a popular parody by “Weird Al” Yankovic, “I Lost on Jeopardy.” Before moving to San Francisco in 1972, Kihn grew up in Baltimore, and won a talent contest sponsored by a local radio station while still in high school.
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