It’s Tuesday. Well, damn. I woke up yesterday to the news of Ric Ocasek’s death. Ric was the lead singer of the rock band The Cars. They hit it big in the late 70s and early 80s with songs like “My Best Friend’s Girl”, “Since You’re Gone”, “Magic”, “Let’s Go”, “Drive”, “Just What I Needed”, “Good Times Roll”, “Bye Bye Love” and “Shake It Up”. They were very much a part of the soundtrack of my highschool years. When CDs first came out, their album Heartbeat City was one of the first I ever purchased.
Ric Ocasek was known for his mop of black hair and black sunglasses and was the band’s primary song writer, though often sharing lead vocals with bassist Benjamin Orr. Ocasek married supermodel Paulina Porizkova after the two met while shooting the video for 1984’s “Drive” and had two children together.
The band had 13 Top 40 singles and four Top 10 LPs and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Ric Ocasek (1944-2019)
It’s Tuesday. Well, damn. I woke up yesterday to the news of Ric Ocasek’s death. Ric was the lead singer of the rock band The Cars. They hit it big in the late 70s and early 80s with songs like “My Best Friend’s Girl”, “Since You’re Gone”, “Magic”, “Let’s Go”, “Drive”, “Just What I Needed”, “Good Times Roll”, “Bye Bye Love” and “Shake It Up”. They were very much a part of the soundtrack of my highschool years. When CDs first came out, their album Heartbeat City was one of the first I ever purchased.
Ric Ocasek was known for his mop of black hair and black sunglasses and was the band’s primary song writer, though often sharing lead vocals with bassist Benjamin Orr. Ocasek married supermodel Paulina Porizkova after the two met while shooting the video for 1984’s “Drive” and had two children together.
The band had 13 Top 40 singles and four Top 10 LPs and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Ric was 75 years old.
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