{"id":490130,"date":"2019-09-15T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=884792"},"modified":"2019-09-15T18:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:47:34","slug":"ric-ocasek-cars-singer-who-fused-pop-and-new-wave-dead-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/ric-ocasek-cars-singer-who-fused-pop-and-new-wave-dead-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Ric Ocasek, Cars Singer Who Fused Pop and New Wave, Dead at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ric-ocasek-obit.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ric-ocasek\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ric-ocasek\" data-tag=\"ric-ocasek\">Ric Ocasek<\/a>, the idiosyncratic singer and guitarist for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-cars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cars\" data-tag=\"the-cars\">the Cars<\/a> and hit-making album producer, has died. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3 p.m. ET, police officers responded to a 911 call at Ocasek\u2019s home, 140 E. 19th Street, a rep for the New York Police Department told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. Officers discovered Ocasek unconscious and unresponsive. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. No cause of death has been revealed. A rep for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the Cars self-titled debut in 1978, Ocasek established himself as a stoic frontman with a sense of humor and melodrama on songs like \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Girl,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re All I\u2019ve Got Tonight,\u201d and \u201cGood Times Roll.\u201d As a member of the Cars, Ocasek helped kickstart the new-wave movement by pinning his disaffected vocals against herky-jerky rhythm guitar, dense keyboards and dancefloor-ready beats, and as one of the group\u2019s lead vocalists, alongside bassist Benjamin Orr, he sang the hits \u201cShake It Up\u201d and \u201cYou Might Think.\u201d With the exception of only a couple of songs, Ocasek wrote every tune the Cars recorded. After the band broke up in 1988, Ocasek recorded as a solo artist and worked as a producer, helping sculpt blockbuster hits like Weezer\u2019s <em>Blue Album<\/em> and <em>Green Album<\/em> and cult favorites like Bad Brains\u2019 <em>Rock for Light<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ric-ocasek-cars-dead-obituary-884792\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ric Ocasek, the idiosyncratic singer and guitarist for the Cars and hit-making album producer, has died. He was 75. At approximately 3 p.m. ET, police officers responded to a 911 call at Ocasek\u2019s home, 140 E. 19th Street, a rep for the New York Police Department told Rolling Stone. Officers discovered Ocasek unconscious and unresponsive. 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