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Posted on 09/15/2019 6:01:23 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Ric Ocasek, founding member and lead singer of The Cars, has died in New York City, the NYPD confirms.
He was found unresponsive at his East 19th Street residence in Manhattan and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
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You Might Think, with effects paying
tribute to The Fly, King Kong etc
Dispute on his age...70 or 75? Sources
saying born in ‘49 but headlines say
he was 75.
Well, you might think I’m sorrowful,
And I’d have to say it’s true...
I’ll have to get out my albums and listen awhile. It’s been a sad week for rock & roll, that’s for sure. R.I.P., Ric.
Screw the Grammies!!!!!
Even though I was heavily in to avante garde music, I for some reason could just never get in to the Cars.
Not knocking them but the vocals just never appealed to me.
The Cars were my favorite band for a few years during the 1978-1984 period.
I saw the band in Downtown Crossing (Boston) just as they were becoming famous. They were doing a photo shoot for their debut album apparently. I eventually bought that album at the Strawberries outside Fenway Park a few months later after a Red Sox game.
Really starting to feel my mortality now!
By Alberto Vargas.
Candy-O was their finest album for sure. “It’s All I Can Do” perhaps their finest track. Very atmospheric and for me, brings back memories of driving up and down Revere Beach the summer of 1979 and getting fried clams at Kelly’s. In fact, that song actually produces the smell of fried clams for me.
This track is my favorite solo Ric Ocasek Song.
You’re not alone. Not sure exactly when it was for me but maybe once I passed 50 I no longer felt bulletproof. I’m in reasonable health but know I’m not 20 anymore.
He had a few good solo songs and that may have been his best. His tribute to Benjamin Orr, called “Silver” is very touching.
Empty nest and a big age difference might have had something to do with it-it has happened to a couple of my friends and co-workers-parting ways after even 40+ years-just working class people so I’m sure being famous doesn’t help, either...
The model on the cover was Natalya Georgievna Medvedeva who died from a heart attack in 2003 at the age of 44.
I remember at a high school track meet in 1984, someone had set a jambox on the back stretch. During the two mile run it was playing “Let the Good Times Roll.” It was my favorite race ever and my personal best time.
-PJ
And Iggy Pop.
8-Track,
StoneAge.
Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, among others. Switched to cassette tapes in 1977 and then CDs in 1985. Never really bought a lot of LPs. I was always for portability.
Whenever the cub was with me in the truck and that tune came on, we’d sing along-but her version was “It’s not the perfume that you wear, it’s not the curlers in your hair”-I still have no idea where that came from...
Eddie Van Halen. Apparently there's some bad news in that camp, and Diamond Dave's doing a Vegas residency this winter with VH road and amp support and the band's blessing. (Remember, Ed would take issue with Dave and Sam for doing any sort of outside solo work - 'what's in the band, stays in the band', that sort of thing.) The rumored tour this year with Mike Anthony back in the fold fell apart with no explanation several months ago, then Dave said in an interview a couple of days ago that "I'm the face of Van Halen from this point on, most likely," and added, "Ed's probably not going to answer the bell this time." He was quick to add that all he hears are the same rumors we all do, but there was a Twitter pic posted on Ed's account back in the spring, and he looked gray-skinned and had a ball cap pulled tight over his head. He also looked like he was bald, or nearly so. Conjecture is, he's had a relapse of cancer.
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