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My Sharona

Certain Songs #880: The Knack – “My Sharona”

May 15, 2017 by Jim Connelly

Album: Get The Knack
Year: 1979

Most people don’t remember this, but there was a time when the success of The Knack — a power-pop band from the Midwest — was seen by some people as a harbinger of all that was truly bad in the music world.

It was, of course, backlash against them having too much success too fast, without any of the dues-paying that people felt were necessary; others railed against the obsession with sex in the lyrics, and of course, others didn’t like their copping from the Beatles iconography on the cover and back sleeve.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Get The Knack, My Sharona, The Knack

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