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The Knack, My Sharona, 1979

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The Knack - My Sharona, 1979

Knack frontman Doug Fieger wrote ‘My Sharona’ after meeting and asking out Sharona in 1977, though she initially turned him down because she was dating someone else at the time. Doug and Sharona eventually became a couple from 1978 to 1982, during which Sharona inspired many tracks on the first three Knack albums and was featured again on the cover of their second LP, ‘...But the Little Girls Understand’ in 1980. The pair stayed in touch after breaking up with Sharona even visiting Doug the week he died in 2010. The website URL for Sharona’s real estate business is ‘mysharona’ and includes the song as background music on the site.

source: the knack, part 3

Released: on June 19, 1995 Minty Fresh Records

Three images from 1979, when Midwesterners decided that any band not sounding identical to Styx or Kiss or Ted Nugent therefore needed to be wiped off the map, or at least have their records ceremoniously burned in a huge bonfire at Comiskey Park in Chicago (which--surprise, surprise!--devolved into a riot). In 2-3 years that followed, The Knack's sophomore album would sell just 1/8th the amount of copies as their monumental debut; the most popular disco musicians would gradually drop off the singles and albums charts and "go underground" (although disco eventually got the last laugh on the stadium-rock cretins, when it got gloriously reborn inside the grooves of house music, Detroit techno, new wave, and even hip-hop); and oh yeah, Styx's next album release was the universally maligned KILROY WAS HERE, while Kiss (sporting new shag haircuts) tested the waters of the Deep Concept Album through an atrocity called THE ELDER, and Ted Nugent would become one of the biggest douchebags of the century, hating blacks and gays and Democrats and sometimes bragging in interviews about shitting his pants to avoid the draft. And come on, we KNOW what all this eventually is leading to. Photos: (1) Knuke the Knack sack, buttons, and T-shirt, 1979; (2) Record-burners in "Disco Sucks" T-shirts, Comiskey Park, Chicago; (3) More young whites at Comiskey about to blow up some black music