M-m-my mom Sharona: as The Knack hit turns 40, the real-life Sharona's daughter offers a personal take
,” which turned 40 this month. Nary a day goes by without hearing it on the radio. Certainly it’s almost always on my mind because Sharona Alperin, on whom the song is based, is my mother, which technically means that she’sWhenever I hear the song, it takes me back to being six years old and the moment I realized I had to share my mom with the world. We were at the Santa Monica Pier’s Twilight Dance Series in 2005, and The Knack was headlining.
Alperin, whom Fieger dated for nearly four years, , grew up as the girl whose name people had never heard of until you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing it. With the song’s 40th anniversary this August — exactly double my age — I decided to sit down with my forever-20-year-old-spirited mom and ask her the story of “My Sharona.”I honestly do not remember if there was ever a right time. It’s been in your life since birth, and as soon as you could understand it, you’ve known about it.
When Doug met me, I was working at a clothing store, I was about 17. I was so in love with fashion and wanted to work in fashion. My mantra was “Fashion is my Passion.” But once I met Doug, I practically became frozen in time, and basically lived in and out of a suitcase both in LA and while touring the world. I was really just going with the flow of life. I don’t think I was too goal oriented the way you are today at age 20.I was not part of the group that was fixated on college.
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