Coordinates | 28°36′36″N77°13′48″N |
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Name | My Sharona |
Cover | MySharonaCover.jpg |
Artist | The Knack |
Album | Get the Knack |
B-side | "Let Me Out" |
Released | |
Format | 7" |
Recorded | April 1979 |
Genre | New Wave, power pop |
Length | 3:58 (single edit)4:52 (album version) |
Label | Capitol |
Writer | Doug Fieger, Berton Averre |
Producer | Mike Chapman |
Audio sample? | yes |
This single | "My Sharona"(1979) |
Next single | "Good Girls Don't"(1979) |
"My Sharona" is the debut single by The Knack, released in 1979 from their album Get the Knack. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart where it remained for six weeks and was #1 on Billboards Top Pop Singles of 1979 year-end chart. It was certified gold (one million units sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America. It reached gold status faster than any debut single since The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1964.
When Fieger, who was 25, met Sharona Alperin, who was 17 at the time, she inspired a two-month-long run of songwriting, as well as becoming Fieger's girlfriend for the next four years. "It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat; I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something and I started writing a lot of songs feverishly in a short amount of time." Whenever Fieger thought about Alperin, he would think of Berton Averre's guitar riff, and the two worked out the structure and melody from there. Averre was originally averse to using Sharona's name in the song, but Fieger wanted it to be a direct expression of his feelings; Averre ultimately relented.
Sharona herself appears on the picture sleeve for the single, and became a major booster of the band bringing many girls to their early shows. Sharona Alperin is now a real estate agent in Los Angeles, California.
The song gained some attention in 2005 when it appeared on the playlist of U.S. President George W. Bush's iPod.
"My Sharona" was ranked at #75 on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs in 2008. It was also ranked #16 on the Top Billboard Hot 100 Rock Songs of the chart's first 50 years and as Billboard's Hot 100 Song of the Year for 1979.
A cover version song is also featured as downloadable content the music video game series Rock Band. The original version of the song, along with its music video, is featured on Lips: Party Classics on Xbox 360.
In films, the song has appeared in Reality Bites, RocketMan, and the trailer for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and more recently in J.J. Abrams' Super 8. In the latter film, the song is featured when the main group of characters are shown singing it. The original version is heard during the end credits.
When Fieger died in 2010, The New York Times called the song "an emblem of the new wave era in rock and a prime example of the brevity of pop fame."
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