Born September 30 in the early 1960s, businesswoman Sharona Alperin is head of her real estate firm that focuses on luxury properties in Los Angeles, in association with Sotheby’s. This photo is from her Instagram.
She was 17 and working as a clerk in a clothing store when 25-year-old Doug Fieger, frontman of the rock group The Knack, fell head over heels in love with her. Declaring his devotion (which she didn’t at first reciprocate), Fieger went on a two-month streak of songwriting. One of the songs was, of course, the joyously libidinous “My Sharona.”
Fieger and his songwriting partner said that they wrote the song from the perspective of an obsessed teenager, and that the tom-tom beat and guitar riff were inspired by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ song “Going to a Go-Go.” Don't forget the great guitar solo!
Alperin began to hang out with Fieger and the band and to accompany them on tours. She posed in her white tank top for the photo on the cover of the single. Released in June 1979, the song was a big hit in several countries, significant in the early New Wave, and still gets a lot of air play.
Alperin and Fieger dated for a few years but never married. They stayed close friends. She supported and visited him as he struggled with cancer until his death in 2010. She embraces her unanticipated rock immortality and features the song on her company website.
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