{"id":19456,"date":"2019-06-14T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=19456"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:37:00","slug":"international-in-1979-a-hit-song-made-this-future-l-a-real-estate-agent-a-pop-culture-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/international-in-1979-a-hit-song-made-this-future-l-a-real-estate-agent-a-pop-culture-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL: In 1979 a Hit Song Made This Future L.A. Real Estate Agent a Pop Culture Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO:\u00a0My Sharona<\/strong><\/p>\n

She is one of the rare people who is internationally recognized solely by her first name, yet still maintains the anonymity most A-listers would kill for after another day dodging paparazzi. She\u2019s the kind of pop culture phenom who has the bragging rights to being both a question in a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0crossword puzzle and an answer (er, question) on the game show\u00a0Jeopardy!<\/em>. When Alex Trebek asked contestants: \u201cName the girl in this hit by the Knack who made Doug Fieger\u2019s \u2018motor run, my motor run\u2019 and became a star in the real estate world\u201d practically everyone in the audience there and watching at home knew the answer: Who is\u00a0\u201cMy Sharona\u201d?<\/p>\n

Before becoming a top real estate agent in Los Angeles, Sharona Alperin hit rock-star-muse status in summer 1979. The L.A. native met Fieger, lead singer of the Knack, while she was still a student at Fairfax High School. \u201cDoug was nine years older than me. I was 17. And he was instantly saying things like, \u2018I\u2019m in love with you. We\u2019re going to be together,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cI was fully in love with my serious boyfriend at the time and he was much closer to my own age.\u201d<\/p>\n