By Steve Evans
In the news, U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace prize today. Bully for him.
More importantly, I heard My Sharona by The Knack on the radio this afternoon and a flood of 30-year-old memories washed across my troubled mind.
There is nostalgia. And then there is The Knack.
A quartet of misogynistic bastards they may have been, but those sonsabitches crafted a perfect power-pop song with the greatest guitar solo -- I said, the greatest guitar solo -- laid down by any band in 30 years.
Period.
My Sharona will tell you everything you need to know about rock-n-roll, post-Beatles.
Scroll to track 58 on my jukebox and goose the volume. Or check this video:
Yeah. That's right.
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- Steve Evans
- Steve has devoted much of his life to viewing and studying films. At last estimate, he had seen more than 15,000 motion pictures during a lifelong love affair with the cinema. An award-winning writer, film historian and movie critic, Steve's work has appeared in more than 50 newspapers and magazines, as well as online film sites including IMDb.com, Rotten Tomatoes.com and DVD Verdict.com. He received a master's degree in communication from the University of Virginia and a bachelor's degree with honors in journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has a dangerous and evidently incurable addiction to B-movies, films noir and The Criterion Collection. Steve can also connect himself to Citizen Kane in three steps.
Film quote du jour...
"Uh, mother...how shall I say? Isn't quite herself today." ~ Psycho (1960).
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