RIP: Ric Ocasek, singer, founder, and front man of The Cars

[thewayne]

Wow. Rough week for '70s/'80s rockers. Eddie Money died last week, he announced last month he had oesophageal cancer. Three decades of three packs a day can do that to you.

Ric, this afternoon, was found unresponsive in his New York apartment and later declared deceased. No cause of death has been declared, so I guess we'll have to wait.

While I think The Cars best material was their early stuff, they released an album a few years ago and it was good stuff, and definitely recognizably true Cars material.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ric-ocasek-cars-dead-obituary-884792/

Comments

[bibliofile]

Jeez, I hadn't heard about Ocasek.

Oesophageal cancer isn't necessarily tied to smokers; secondhand smoke can do it, too. (At least, that's what we figure got my friend, who went to as many live music shows as they could manage.)

[bibliofile]

(Classically, my brain is playing Gary Numan's "Cars" on the earworm radio. Silly brain.)

[thewayne]

That is funny!  Right era, wrong artist. I'm driving to Albuquerque Friday night, 3 hour drive.  Maybe I'll crank my Energy play list which is largely rock of that era.  And I do have Cars in my computer, though not on that list.  Maybe it should be.

[thewayne]

Yeah second-hand smoke will definitely do you in!  Christopher Reeve's wife was a prominent victim, she was a non-smoker bar waitress for a number of years before they married.  But in Money's case, apparently he was a documented smoker.