Watch The Roots introduce Mike Shinoda to the tune of ‘My Sharona’ on ‘Fallon’

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Mike Shinoda appeared as a special guest on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and was introduced by the The Roots to the tune of ‘My Sharona’.The Linkin Park co-vocalist showed up to the show last night (September 17) and was introduced by Fallon as “a multiple Grammy award-winning artist and co-founder of Linkin Park”.

Shinoda made his way onto the couches after appearing from behind a curtain.While making his way to the couch to shake Fallon’s hand, The Roots – Fallon’s house band on the show – performed a rendition of The Knack’s 1979 hit track ‘My Sharona’. “M-M-M-Mike Shinoda” sang The Roots, swapping the song’s main lyric for the musician’s full name.“They had to do it, come on Mike Shinoda!” said Fallon with Shinoda adding: “The ‘My Sharona’ thing in high school, for those who don’t realise what they just did.” Fallon continued, asking the musician if he ever “dreamed that The Roots would play ‘Mike Shinoda’?” with the singer responding: “Uh no, That’s a big no.”Fans took to X/Twitter to react to The Root’s rendition of the track for the musician.

One user wrote: “I’ve tweeted Mike this for years and I’m so glad it’s now real,” while another said: “EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG I ALWAYS HEAR MIKE SHINODA I KNEW IT WASNT JUST ME LMAOOOOO.”Elsewhere in the interview, Shinoda opened up about the return of Linkin Park and the band’s forthcoming album ‘From Zero‘ which is set for release on November 15 (pre-order/pre-save here).

Explaining what it feels like to be back, Shinoda said: “You know what’s really funny is I was texting with the band after the Forum show and we were euphoric for 48 hours.