1979 and I'm about to release the first single by Little Murders. I'm also working at a school in Abbotsford which has since shut down. On the first day of school instead of the bell, they played a record over the speakers. They had a turntable in a little alcove next to the office. The kids lined up to pop records. Nowadays every school I go to does it but it was something totally new back then. And the big song while I was there was The Knack and My Sharona. God, we loved this song when it came out. A truly thrilling piece of power pop. The trouble of course was that it wouldn't go away. It stayed on the top of the charts for what seemed like months. There was no escaping it. I bought their album and there were a few good songs on it. But that song just got too big and they would have to live under its shadow forever,
Later when Things Will Be Different came out I got them to play it to bring the kids in. There was a special announcement at the assembly. No matter how much I wished my song didn't get as big My Sharona. By quite a few million. Then again. I've never had to worry about a follow-up.
I played this song to my kids a few years back. They thought it was brilliant. Listening to it far removed from its time it really is a brilliant song.
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