This is a little slice of my childhood.

I bought the album, ‘Get the Knack,’ on 8-track from the bargin bin at Target. (I’ll wait here if you want to google that, or ask your parents, or whatever). It had the classic, My Sharona, along with another of my faves, Good Girls Don’t (we always sang loudest on the ‘but I do’ part).

One of our favorite things to do was turn this up really, really loud and dance around on our patio like idiots. Thank God Al Gore hadn’t invented Youtube yet, or there would be actual evidence.

Being a bargain 8-track and not having google back in the day (we were lucky if the mastadons didn’t knock out the power, ya know?) I had no idea that this song was about an actual girl named Sharona and that she was about my age, even though the singer / writer was clearly older because he had a hit song and everything. In fact I never even bothered to find out in all these years. It turns out Sharona was at his side this weekend.

R.I.P. Doug.

Doug Fieger, lead singer for The Knack and co-writer of My Sharona, passed away on Sunday at the age of 57.