MOJO’s One Hit Wonders #7:
Artist/band: The Knack
Track: My Sharona
Date: July 14, 1979
Chart position: 6 (UK)
The lowdown: My Sharona was irresistible. Inspired by a girl that bandleader and vocalist Doug Fieger was sweet on, this jerking, groin-centric piece of red-faced powerpop was written as a showstopping end to The Knack’s live set. After entering Billboard’s Hot 100 on June 23, 1979, it reached Number 1 nine weeks later, holding onto the US top spot for six weeks. In America, all those weeks at Number 1 spawned a three-album career that continued until they split in 1982, but in the UK the Anglophile L.A. quartet were pretty much over and done with in the same timeframe.
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