Thye Knack-Get The Knack

This New Wave album from 1979 is the debut from this L.A. based band. Promoted as a New Wave Beatles the front and back covers were reproductions of Beatles album covers,the back cover from A Hard Days Night.

One Of My house mates at the house on Pyle Street had this on cassette and was played quite a lot by him. I bought this used recrd about five years ago. I always liked side two the best starting off with “My Sharona” a huge number one hit for the band,followed by “Heatbeat” the Buddy Holly song from the 50’s . “Siamese Twins”(The Monkey And Me)” is pretty good but the next song “Lucinda” is the best on the record and one on my playlist. “Oh Tara” on side one is another one liked as well as “Good Girls Don’t” the follow up single to “My Sharona”. They put out three or four records after this but they never achieved the success of the debut. Leader Doug Fieger died of brain cancer in 2010.

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