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September 30, 2005

Ric Ocasek Rocks CBGB

Former Cars frontman drives from "Good Times" to "Nexterday"
April 24, 2002

The Cars Check Their Rearview Mirrors

Ric Ocasek steers through his old band and his production work
October 4, 2000

Benjamin Orr: A Life in Rock & Roll

Cars bassist and Cleveland rock legend Orr dead at fifty-three

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Door To Door

Ever since the cold, brittle pop of 1980's Panorama proved to be a dead end, the Cars have been in retreat. Relegating most of their quirky tendencies to outside projects – Ric Ocasek's two solo albums and guitarist Elliot Easton's guitar-pop-fest Change/No Change – the band turned its own...

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Ric Ocasek's artful pop songs drove the Cars, the new-wave band with the fastest, most consistent success. Their debut and second albums sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and each album since (except their final group effort, Door to Door) has sold over a million copies. Although the group initially got the critics' nod for Ocasek's coolly detached stance and the smoothly burnished...

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