Editing Terry Knight (section)

== Life after Grand Funk ==
Knight was also dropped from Capitol soon after the Grand Funk court actions were resolved and began his own label, Brown Bag Records,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> releasing albums and singles by [[Mom's Apple Pie]],<ref name="Perrone">Perrone, Pierre. (November 10, 2004) [[The Independent]]. ''[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20041110/ai_n12813230 Obituary: Terry Knight – Controversial manager of Grand Funk Railroad.]''</ref> [[John Hambrick]], [[Wild Cherry (band)|Wild Cherry]] and [[Faith Band]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> None of them found commercial success and, in late 1973, Knight retired permanently from show business.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He associated with super model [[Twiggy]] and raced cars with film star [[Paul Newman]] in the mid-1970s before becoming addicted to cocaine, which consumed him. By the 1980s he had straightened himself out, settling in [[Yuma, Arizona]] with his daughter Danielle. He melded into the community working in advertising sales for a weekly newspaper.