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Sharon O'Neill

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Kiwi songstress Sharon O'Neill deserves a round of applause.

Sharon wrote and performed a canon of fine pop songs. The songs have great hooks, melody and structure. Sharon sings like Linda Ronstadt. The production was of its time but not bad. Words, Asian Paradise, Maxine, Maybe, Losing You, Luck's on the Table, Smash Palace. All of them show sophisticated pop chops. None are noticeably inferior to equivalent international material of the time. Rightly people say Dragon should have made it big in the States, and they should say in the same breath that Sharon O'Neill should had as good a shot.

Here is the video of Maybe. Haunting verse and chorus especially the resolution at the end, but, surprisingly, a rather confused middle 8 that doesn't lift the song at all. Look out for the spandex pants, and an impressive collection of late 70s NZ electric appliances in the living room that she walks around while singing. Looked at 40 years later, you wonder whether she filmed it in a junk shop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYA0zOMeuc

The last thing I want to do is trivialise Sharon's talent, but this review would remiss if I didn't mention that she was hot. What's not to like about wet shaggy hair, lip gloss and tight spandex trousers? The perfect bogun princess, with a face that launched a thousand hand shandies. In 1980 after a screening of Sharon's latest video, many a tv set looked like a plaster's radio.
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Have to agree; especially with the last dodgy paragraph. :rofl:
Sharon was a Nelson girl and I was living there when she did a homecoming gig with Split Enz. Great night!
'This Heart, This Song' was a favourite album in one of my early flats.

NZ's hottest ever pop star with some great songs.
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there was a really good doco about nz female singers on tv a while ago.. she was one of the featured artists....well worth watching
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Never heard of her.
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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sizzlingbadger wrote:Never heard of her.
You must be young...
Or a Pom.




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