5 Feitjes over ‘My Sharona’ van The Knack: - Sharona Alperin was het vriendinnetje van zanger Doug Fieger - Ze is ook te zien op de hoes van de single - ‘My Sharona’ was de debuutsingle van The Knack en meteen in thuisland U.S.A. een #1 - Mike Chapman, producer van o.a. Smokie en Mud, zat ook achter deze single - Het was de Alarmschijf in juli 1979 maar kwam niet hoger dan #20 in de Top 40 | NPO Radio 5

The Knack - My Sharona 1979 “My Sharona” is the debut single by the Knack. The song was written by Berton Averre and Doug Fieger, and it was released in 1979 from their debut album, Get the Knack. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, where it remained for six weeks, and was number one on Billboard’s 1979 Top Pop Singles year-end chart. When Doug Fieger was 25 years old, he met 17-year-old Sharona Alperin,[9] who inspired a two-month-long run of songwriting, as well as ev