Greg Kihn

Greg Kihn

Greg Kihn (born July 10, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a U.S. pop musician & radio personality.

Career

Music

Greg Kihn is the front man for The Greg Kihn Band, which released several records that made the charts in the early 1980s. The best known songs by The Greg Kihn Band are "The Breakup Song" (1981) and "Jeopardy" (1983). The latter was spoofed by "Weird Al" Yankovic as "I Lost on Jeopardy" on Yankovic's album Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D.

Greg currently is the morning DJ at San Jose, California classic rock radio station KUFX-FM (promotional name 98.5 K-Fox).

Since 2001, the Greg Kihn Band has been one of the opening acts at the annual Kihncert, which is organized by K-Fox.

Greg's son Ry Kihn (named for guitarist Ry Cooder) sometimes plays with his dad's band, as well as a band of his own, Big Fun USA. He also has a daughter, who once sang Christmas carols on his radio show.

Kihn has also written four novels, "Horror Show", "Shade of Pale", "Mojo Hand," and "Big Rock Beat", and released a collection of short stories by himself and other well known rock musicians, named "". Contributors include Pete Townshend, Graham Parker, Joan Jett, and Ray Davies.

Greg Kihn was inducted into the San Jose Rock Hall of Fame in 2007.

Author

In 1996, Kihn published his first novel, "Horror Show". The book was nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award [ [http://www.gregkihn.biz/horror-show-novel-by-greg-kihn-.html Greg Kihn Horror Show Novel ] ] . His second novel, "Shade of Pale" followed in 1997. His next two books, "Big Rock Beat" and "Mojo Hand" were sequels to "Horror Show".

Albums

* "Greg Kihn" (1976)
* "Greg Kihn Again" (1977)
* "Next Of Kihn" (1978) #145 US
* "With The Naked Eye" (1979) #115 US
* "Glass House Rock" (1980) #167 US
* "Rockihnroll" (1981) #32 US
* "Kihntinued" (1982) #32 US
* "Kihnspiracy" (1983) #15 US
* "Kihntagious" (1984) #121 US
* "Citizen Kihn" (1985) #51 US
* "Love and Rock & Roll" (1986)
* "Kihn of Hearts" (1991)
* "Mutiny" (1994)
* "Horror Show" (1996)

ingles

Bibliography

*"Horror Show" Tom Doherty Assoc Llc ISBN 0812551087
*"Shade of Pale" Tor Books ISBN 0812551095
*"Big Rock Beat" Forge Books ISBN 0312867565
*"Mojo Hand" Forge Books ISBN 0312872461

ee also

*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References

External links

* [http://www.gregkihn.com/ Greg Kihn's Website]
* [http://www.kfox.com/pages/earlyshow.html Greg Kihn's page on the K-Fox Website]


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