My Sharona / Let Me Out

by The Knack

My Sharona / Let Me Out cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: June 1979
  • Label: Capitol
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 6:18
  • Community rating: 3.37/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Mike Chapman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Driven by a stuttering, incredibly infectious bassline and a notoriously long, virtuosic guitar solo, this hyper-energetic single dominated global charts at the end of the decade. The unabashedly simplistic Beatlesque hooks and aggressive presentation sparked a massive, though brief, mainstream resurgence of guitar-based power pop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, riff-heavy, punchy, infectious

Tracklist

  1. My Sharona (3:58)
  2. Let Me Out (2:20)

Credits

  • The Knack - primary artist
  • Steve Hall - lacquer cut by
  • Berton Averre - written-by
  • Doug Fieger - written-by

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