He grew up in a happy home — Mom, Dad, older sister, two younger brothers — in Woburn, Mass. Ric Ocasek’s compressed guitar sounds itch away while Elliot Easton provides the more fluid lead guitar breaks. In the early 1970s Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr move to Boston, Massachusetts.

The final piece falls into place with the recruitment of drummer David Robinson. “As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like [folk rock icon] Bob Dylan, [late 1960s subversive minimalists] The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. The Cars’ former bassist and alternate lead vocalist Ben Orr separates from his fiancée Diane Grey-Page in 1990 after eight years together.
Later, inspired by a piece of jewelry the actress Cher created for a friend, Robinson began designing women’s bracelets and necklaces. That would be Tommy Shaw, whom I saw playing with Styx on the Grand Illusion tour.

He briefly attends Bowling Green University and Antioch College but drops out to move to Cleveland and concentrate on music.

What if we don’t want to play these songs?” Richman challenged Warner Brothers. I’m going to go over to him, and speak to him.’ So I look over his shoulder and see he’s writing out a little 3x5 card that says he’s starting a band and needs a drummer.”. At the advent of the Vietnam War, two of his bandmates were drafted into the US Army, resulting in the dissolution of Grassroots. This was the sound that Robinson had fallen for, that his friends thought was so horrible. They release the album ‘Empty Hearts’ (2014). The Cars were named "Best New Artist" in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers' Poll and won "Video of the Year" for "You Might Think" at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. It seems that Kristin becomes involved in the music industry also. ( Log Out /  I’d like to think I was responsible for more people knowing who he was. No! On each album there is usually one track he co-writes with keyboardist Greg Hawkes, but otherwise it is Ocasek behind the steering wheel of The Cars. But as soon as this band got into the studio and rehearsed, I could see clearly that we had something going on.”. Education.

That voice! With their sleek, mechanical pop rock, the band racked up a string of platinum albums and top forty singles’. 86). The cover painting is the work of famed pin-up artist Alberto Vargas. That led him first to the vanguard punk band The Modern Lovers (TML), and ultimately to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as drummer for The Cars. Ben Orr is a member of the following lists: American rock singers, American male singers and Deaths from pancreatic cancer. ]”  Ben Orr grows up in Lakewood and Parma, Ohio.

‘Move Like This’ (2011) (US no. And that set the tone for our entire careers.”. “I could see that commercially this was really going to be good. “Twenty-three years had passed since we worked on an album,” Robinson said. But he experienced phenomenal fame, realized his music ambitions, and apparently had a son. I really helped promote the idea of electronic drums, because we were always interested in whatever new gadget came out. The Cars go on the road in 1982. 57, AUS no. **SPOILER ALERT This episode gets pretty specific at times, revealing details and quotes from the book. The Cars’ leader Ric Ocasek releases his second solo album, ‘This Side Of Paradise’ (1986) (US no. It was a really crude way that you could hit the drum and have a computer make a noise. The album is co-produced by Garrett ‘Jacknife’ Lee and The Cars. The album is co-produced by two members of the group, Ric Ocasek and Greg Hawkes. Anyway I have to add that ironically my copy of Let’s Go arrived today. It weaves unsteadily as its paranoid verse tugs against the chipper chorus. 62). Ben Orr was previously married to Judith Orr. David Robinson is born on 2 April 1949 in Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.A. I miss you Benjamin Orr! Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr meet again in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970.

If you haven’t in a while, pull up The Cars You Might Think video from 1984. The remaining members united once more to perform at the induction ceremony, their final performance before Ocasek died in September of cardiovascular disease. Although the song is written by Ric Ocasek, it is bassist Ben Orr who provides the lead vocal for ‘Just What I Needed’.

That was summer after 8th grade. This time both Ric Ocasek and David Robinson join Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, so all four surviving members of The Cars are present. He looked a lot like the handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer from the Hitcher and Wanted Dead or Alive movies. The difference between ‘Let’s Go’ and prior hits by The Cars is that it is less heavy, less quirky and more of an irresistible pop song. MONICA. He was subsequently hospitalized.

With Ben Orr’s hauntingly beautiful robotic-twanged new wave voice, Ocasek’s plaintive pop lyrics, and Robinson’s hard rock beat, The Cars drove straight into mainstream rock stardom. HENCE THIS WEBSITE. It was 1968. Ric and Suzanne eventually marry in 1984. ‘The Cars’ is the first of four consecutive albums by the band produced by Roy Thomas Baker.

So I got a whole bunch of new friends, and I became obsessed with restoring and fixing this house. Ric Ocasek and bassist Ben Orr share the lead vocals on this song of admiration and longing that rides a wave of robot-pop and blips along its merry way. Who is Judith Orr?

“Everything took off super fast. After the latter failed as well, the three of them came together with Hawkes and drummer David Robinson to form ‘The Cars’ in 1976. In 2000 Ben Orr begins dating Julie Snider and she becomes his fiancée. Amazing story. Robinson had been planning to talk to Ocasek about another Cars album. The album cover is a close-up of a toothy young woman behind a transparent plastic steering wheel. His death rocked me as if he were an old boyfriend or member of my family. Elliot ‘Slick Licks’ Easton is born Elliot Steinberg on 18 December 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.  Elliot has a brother, Leslie, and two sisters, Lisa and Penny. His parents were (and continued to be) accepting — if not supportive — of the percussion in the basement. This album is co-produced by Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange and The Cars. My crush on Benjamin began the first time I saw him on the back cover of Candy-O which I bought after hearing Let’s Go. What an unbelievably gorgeous man! Gross….then became infatuated with the angelic voice….thinking he was from another country as if he had an accent in the way his words sounded when he sang…I started googling You-tube videos and realized how gorgeous this man has become behind the voice…I am hoping his son, follows in his father’s footsteps….
He is most remembered for The Cars Co-lead vocalist and bass player.. His zodiac sign is Virgo. He is the son of Charles Orzechowski and his wife, Betty Orzechowski (nee Ben).

Ben and Judith separate in 1994 and divorce in 1997. Other kids mockingly call him ‘Benny Eleven Letters’ in reference to his lengthy surname, Orzechowski. when i first saw him on midnight special i could not believe how gorgeous he was, so sweet looking but yet masculine face at the same time. Then, in 1986, Robinson bought a house in Gloucester. After eleven long years, the wait is finally over! It was a shock and sad to hear about his battle with cancer. He was a student at Valley Forge High School.

As people loved to hate them, The Modern Lovers were also pioneering a space in the music scene that would evolve into punk, new wave, alternative rock and indie rock. During this same period, Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr perform as an acoustic duo under the banner of Ocasek And Orr at the Idler coffee house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The second one was penned by Benjamin. He also performed with The Cars one last time in Atlanta, Georgia. In The Cars, the quirky element is usually Greg Hawkes’ keyboards textures which are both hi-tech in a novel way and a bit wilfully weird. “I started telling my friends, ‘I saw this thing that was so incredible.’ So I would bring them to see him, and they would say, ‘What? They form a group themselves to perform in and around Ohio State University. The house consumed him. Can’t believe he’s been gone over 17yrs, so sad, what a tragic loss.

"All of my life my dreams run wild; now I stand alone in this river of fire... Days of despair and nights of desire; I wait for you in this river of fire.". On 23 August 1989 he marries his third wife, Pauline Porizkova, the Czech model and actress he met while making the video for The Cars’ 1984 hit ‘Drive’. That year, everything from biker gangs to renowned musicians would show up on the Cambridge Common. siiiiiiiiiii, me encantaria, PORFAVOR!

As of December 2001, it had been certified 4xPlatinum by the RIAA.

7, UK no. So we went back to Boston with our tails between our legs and rethought it.”  Cap’n Swing is rejected by several record labels.

It’s like time capsule of All-Things-1980’s-Pop-Culture. Ric and Pauline have two sons: Jonathan Raven (born in May 1993) and Oliver Orion (born on 23 May 1998). Don’t you see it?’ I even remember saying if there was a band with three more guys like him it would be an incredible band.”. It was stupid. SHE CLAIMS TO BE A FITNESS ENTHUSIAST AS WELL, BUT SHE MIGHT JUST LIKE WEARING THE CLOTHES. ‘You Might Think’ (US no.

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