Ric Ocasek, New Wave Rock Visionary and Cars Co-Founder, Is Dead at 75

Renfield · September 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/arts/music/ric-ocasek-cars-dead.html

cp3iverson · September 2019

Major loss

genius. Great singer/songwriter/producer

mfc2006 · September 2019

Damn

hedonist · September 2019

I loved The Cars: part of the soundtrack of my teens.

Plus, who can’t help the lovely entangling of Phoebe Cates and Moving in Stereo?

RIP, Ric.

lexicondevil · September 2019

So glad I got to seem them, though only once. The crowd was lame, but the band were tight. No one sounds like The Cars and no one ever will. Rest easy, Ric.

Gern Blansten · September 2019

One of my neighborhood friends was a few years older than me and had me listen to their first album. I was probably only 11 or 12 but I remember being fascinated with the pictures on the record sleeve. I had been recently turned on to KISS so they were drastically different. I still have that album that I bought in 1979 or 1980.

I didn't care much for Heartbeat City (1984) and anything after that but their first album is up there with any debut album.

cutz · September 2019

First band i saw Live.

RIP Rick Ocasek

pearljammr78 · September 2019

I’ll admit it since no one else is. Drive is an awesome song. Never got into the rest of the songs. But I just rock out 80’s style to Drive. Every time. The Deftones cover is awesome too.

Poncier · September 2019

cutz said:

First band i saw Live.

RIP Rick Ocasek

Same for me

Loujoe · September 2019

Dude produced bad brains 'rock for light'.... enough said...good life. Thank you.

brianlux · September 2019

About 12, maybe 15 years ago, a woman stopped me on the street and said, "Has anyone ever told you you look like Ric Ocasek?" Must have been the hair at the time, the nose, the thin face maybe. Anyway, I said, "No way, I'm not that cool." Ric was though.

Very sorry to see him go. R.I.P Ric Ocasek.