Ric Ocasek, Lead Singer of The Cars, Dead in New York at 75

This is him singing. Great band at the time.

Well.

There were TWO tickets to paradise.

RIP Mr Ocasek

Great tunes,

I always feel that Taylor Swift plagiarized the Cars song "Shake It Up". RIP.

RIP
He was married to Paulina Poriskova.

The Cars were tight, I considered them the anti - Yes. There were no grand progressions to their songs, they were catchy and direct.

Rick and Paulina hooked up while making the video for Drive. They are both of Czech heritage. The irony is Ocasek neither wrote or sung that song, the credit belongs to Benjamin Orr who passed away at the age of 53 at the start of the century.

Paulina was so good in the video that I thought it would lead to an acting career, she's 18 years younger than Rick...and very rich.

Benjamin Orr and Roger Taylor were separated at birth.

Rick Ocasek was the luckiest man in the world, Paulina's an 11...still is. Correction 21 years difference.

I love The Cars. RIP Ric Ocasek.

Drug overdose or assisted suicide sounds like he was abandoned
Why did paulina leave
She said yr ago "we're no longer on the same page"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgYxDehs7k

Candio….a guilty pleasure of mine...…...as I guy who preferred soul and R&B, the Cars music always struck me as pretty darn good and Rick seemed to be a cool dude...RIP

happ you're more of a cazzelino than Cazzelino.

The CBC got it wrong, Rick Ocasek was 70 when he passed away, at 75 that would make him as old as Randy Bachmann.

Although The Cars owe a debt of gratitude to the Canadian. Ocasek was having problems getting his music published when Bachman - Turner Overdrive came out. At that time Album Rock was all about Yes, Genesis and The Strawbs. Led Zeppelin started to produce less blues based and more progressive rock albums. BTO changed the landscape with Ocasek and The Cars finally getting their record deal. Ocasek is older than Bruce Springsteen, The Boss got published when he was 24, Ocasek was almost 30.

The Cars opened for BTO before their first album was released, then they did a solo gig at The Edge - now long gone. Win over Toronto and the rest of North America will follow.

Randy Bachman famously said, "you can't dance to Yes", he must have liked what he heard.

Insidious Von said:

Rick Ocasek was the luckiest man in the world, Paulina's an 11...still is. Correction 21 years difference.

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He did very good with this beautiful life-long surgarbaby. If they were young and married today, it would last 2-5 years tops.

Insidious Von said:

Randy Bachman famously said, "you can't dance to Yes", he must have liked what he heard.

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you also can't dance to Randy Bachman

sp free said:

Well.

There were TWO tickets to paradise.

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I like what you did there. Adding a little levity is always a good thing.

The Cars were such a big part of my life. Great songs that never get old. RIP

Medical examiner reports he died of cardiac arrest and was suffering from heart disease. Ruled death by natural causes.

RIP

First it was Eddie Money, celebrity deaths almost always come in 3's, who's next?

Won't be Keith Richards!

Mick Jagger?-didn't he have heart problems recently?

Great band. Talented guy. RIP Ric.

saxon said:

Medical examiner reports he died of cardiac arrest and was suffering from heart disease. Ruled death by natural causes.

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I read pulmonary emphysema. Was he a smoker?