Rapper FIRST time REACTION to The Knack - My Sharona! These LYRICS are kinda WILD…

Reactors shocked that in the 60s, 70s, 80s we actually listened to music that talked about sex and drugs. 😂 Cracks me up every time. Try The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.”

He's 25 and fell in love with a 17 yr old "Sharona". They dated for four years and, were engaged though never married. They stayed friends. She visited Fieger frequently while he was dying of cancer. She is now a realtor in LA.

If you felt "a little creepy" about this, wait til you hear their song "good girls don't"

"Dad Brain" as i call it, is what you have, especially as you have two little girls. It's that super protective side you didn't know you had until you become a father xxx

I'm here to change your mind man! I was 27 when I met this girl, and fresh out of a 5 year marriage, I was lonely so asked her out. First thing on my mind other than her, was the age as I knew she was young. She stated she was 18, but a friend later told me she was 17! I'm like WHOA! I called her, and asked if she'd mind bringing an ID to our date, and she said sure. She did bring the ID, she was 18, and we've been married now for 35 years so never judge a book by it's cover as they say! 👍✌🗽

Doug Fieger was 27 when My Sharona hit #1 on the charts in 1979. He was from Detroit,MI and the band was founded in 1978 and was from L.A. California. Doug was 25 when he met 17 year old Sharona Alperin and inspired him to write this song.He passed away on Valentines Day 2010. R.I.P. Doug

"The Knack's lead singer Doug Fieger wrote the song for the then-teenager who would become his girlfriend, Sharona Alperin. Fieger died last month... Alperin, who stayed friends with him, was one of the people at his side during those last days." Excerpts from "The Woman Behind 'My Sharona'" an interview with her on All Things Considered in 2010: " I was madly in love with my boyfriend at the time, and so it took a year for me to leave my boyfriend." Alperin remembers the day when she first heard "My Sharona" — before she and Fieger were an item. "One day, on my lunch break from my clothing store, I went to their [The Knack's] rehearsal," she says. "And I saw maybe Burton [Averee] or Doug [Fieger] say, 'Should we play it? Should we play it? All right, let's play it for her.' And I sat down. Cut to: I'm driving back to the clothing store, and I'm thinking, 'Did I just hear a song with my name in it?'" The cover art of the single "My Sharona" actually features Alperin posing in a revealing tank top and tight jeans. For some time, she was famous in her own right. "That was, like, my normal outfit, what I wore all the time, by the way," she says, laughing. "I guess I didn't look at myself as a celebrity, but people were very excited when they met me. And I remember going on tour, and seeing sometimes people dress up. And I'd say, 'What are you dressed up as?' And they would say, 'Sharonas.' "Not everybody knew that Sharona was a person, or they thought maybe it was a thing. I think in Japan, they might have thought it was the male organ — that's what I heard." Fieger and Alperin eventually got married to separate people, but they remained in touch. Fieger died on Valentine's Day this year, but Alperin says she went to see him frequently in his final months. "A lot of his idols, people that meant so much to him in the music industry, came to pay their respects to him," she says. "And it was really beautiful."

I just literally had one of those moments when you actually pay attention to the actual lyrics ..😳😳 that you never heard growing up listening to the song 😂

The full length version has one of the most epic guitar solos ever IMO

BP, Sharona was a real person. The lead singer did fall in love with her and there was an age gap of around 7 or 8 yrs. She was 17 when they started dating and they were together for a few years. I think they may have gotten engaged or married but I'm not sure about that. They broke up tho.

Oh we loved The Knack in ‘79!

this was the number one song for 1979. its just a fun song , werent you young once ?

"My Sharona" is about Doug Fieger's real-life love affair with Sharona Alperin, who inspired the song's two-month writing process. Fieger, the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist, met Alperin when he was 25 and she was 17, and they dated for four years. Fieger said he fell in love with her immediately, and that she was inspirational and moved him on a basic level. The song's production and guitar-bass combination also reflect sexual tension.

It's amazing how having daughters changes men's outlook on things. I was 19 when this song came out. I only sort of heard the lyrics and never saw this video. When this was written, Sharona Alperin, the actual person who was the song's subject, was 17 years old.

I think the difference between older stuff like this & more modern music is not only did the audience view this stuff as fantasy (not reality), but lyrics were more of a secondary characteristic of most any song. Today, most, like yourself, are more lyric focused. Stuff feels more like relatable poetry behind a beat in modern music. Back then, I think it was more melody & harmony.

The band member who cowrote the song said it took about an hour to create it. They recorded the entire album for less than $18,000. In a Freakonomics interview last year, he said of the income derived from My Sharona, "it’s easily over $100,000 a year, and less than, I’d say, $300,000. I still make a very good living off of that one song." What he had to say about the creation of the song: AVERRE: “My Sharona” was one of the first songs that Doug and I wrote together when we started playing the Troubadour. Doug was always saying, “We should have a song that’s like the end of the set, that makes them want us to play an encore.” I was a huge fan of Elvis Costello’s. And the drum breakdown in “Pump it Up” was, like, so … just feral and exciting. I picked up a guitar and I started playing the riff that we know as the “My Sharona” riff. BUH-bah BUh-bah BUH BAH BUH BAH BUH BAH-buh BUH-bah BUh-bah BUH BAH BAH-bah BAH BAH! And I thought, “This is pretty good. I like this.” So, we went back to Doug’s apartment. And Sharona was this young woman and Doug took a shine to her. He just, just off the top of his head, came up with the kind of stuttering, the “m — m — my Sharona.” He was channeling Roger Daltry in “My Generation.” And we cranked it out, you know, I’d say maybe an hour. Best hour ever.

I have fond memories of The Knack and the one and only time I became an "accidental" groupie. I was about 16 when the song came out, and they were doing a concert in my town, so a friend and I went to see them. It was a great concert! When we left the Coliseum, we just happened to leave the exit nearest where the bands left the arena. We stopped to talk to some other 16-17 yr old girls and guys that we met at the concert. About that time a couple of security guards walked by and one of them said to the other, "Just a bunch of groupies!". We all just looked at each other, and then one of the guys said, "Well, if we've got the name, we might as well play the game!" A minute or two later the limo with The Knack came rolling out. We all proceeded to scream and chase it! They rolled their windows down and started shaking hands with all of the kids. I got to shake Berton Averre's hand! The limo then pulled out of the parking lot. It's probably one of the tamest groupie stories ever told, but it left me with a great memory! I can't hear a song of theirs without thinking about it.

Broooooo. My mother’s name is Sharon. She is passed now but this was her song. Thank you. I’m a little misty eyed now. Bless you good sir

Bless your sweet innocent soul BP, I too was bought up in the church, but my soul is clearly not as pure as yours, can't stop laughing.

Rock and Roll singers have always sang about teenage girls... Billy Idol's Rock the Cradle of Love... Stray Cat's Sexy + 17... KISS's Christine 16... Neil Diamond's Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon... etc.