Greg Kihn, ‘Jeopardy’ singer and Bay Area rock fixture, dies at 75

Greg Kihn, the singer-songwriter who had a No. Kihn, a fixture of the Bay Area rock scene in the 1980s, was best known for the Greg Kihn Band’s upbeat 1983 hit “Jeopardy,” which was eclipsed only by Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” on the Billboard singles chart. An early MTV staple, the song and video later earned a loving parody treatment from Weird Al Yankovic as “I Lost on Jeopardy.” Kihn was born in Baltimore and moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s. Kihn had his first Hot 100 hit with “The Breakup Song,” which went to No. He released scores of punning self-titled albums, up through 2017’s “Rekihndled.” Kihn was also a fixture of drive time radio in the Bay Area, serving as morning host on the San Jose-based station KUFX-FM for 17 years, retiring there in 2018.