{"id":2472,"date":"2008-04-28T06:59:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T11:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2008-06-06T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:58:55","slug":"i-did-not-know-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"I did not know this…"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the “I had no idea these were real people” file, the NY Daily News has tracked down Rikki, Sharona, and Rosalita<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes – the ones of Steely Dan, the Knack, and Bruce fame:<\/p>\n

“Rikki” did lose that number. “My Sharona” has a Web site.<\/p>\n

“Rosalita” hooked up with Bruce Springsteen at the beach – as her boyfriend “Wild Billy” drank with his buddies nearby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I figured there had to be stories behind them…:<\/p>\n

Four decades after she briefly met Steely Dan rocker Donald Fagen, Rikki DuCornet still cannot escape the song written for her.<\/p>\n

“I notice it walking into a sushi bar, going into a drugstore. Take an airplane, there it is,” DuCornet, 65, told More. “It’s become a constant, something to hold onto.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After nearly thirty years of listening to Elton John’s “The Mitch is Back”, I feel her pain.<\/p>\n

The woman who inspired the 1979 anthem “My Sharona” was a gorgeous high school senior with a killer body when a co-worker brought a boyfriend, the lead singer from an unknown band called the Knack, into the boutique where she worked.<\/p>\n

Sharona Alperin wound up modeling for the cover of the band’s 6 million-selling record – and dated the rock star for four years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dating Doug Fieger?\u00a0 Ewww.<\/p>\n

Er, on second thought, maybe that’s all she deserves:<\/p>\n

She was shocked and dismayed to find out that her namesake song is on President Bush’s iPod. “Couldn’t I be on Bill Clinton’s?” she moaned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bwahahaha.\u00a0 You’re on mine, too.\u00a0 Deal.<\/p>\n

OK – so the cool part…:<\/p>\n

Rosalita’s real name was Diane Lozito and she met the Boss in 1971 at a show at the Jersey Shore when he was an up-and-coming rocker.<\/p>\n

Lozito, now a location scout, was actually the inspiration for more than one Springsteen tune. The story of their first kiss – behind a rock on the beach while her boyfriend was nearby – is retold in “Spirit in the Night.”<\/p>\n

Soon “Wild Billy” was out of the picture. Springsteen and Lozito moved in together over her parents’ objections – “I know your mama, she don’t like me ’cause I play in a rock and roll band”<\/em> – but split up after four years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

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From the “I had no idea these were real people” file, the NY Daily News has tracked down Rikki, Sharona, and Rosalita.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes – the ones of Steely Dan, the Knack, and Bruce fame: “Rikki” did lose that number. “My Sharona” has a Web site. “Rosalita” hooked up with Bruce Springsteen at the beach – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}