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Ric Ocasek

Ric Ocasek

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Ric Ocasek: Beat-Attitudes

Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 26 January 1983

A DIRTY white sofa is pushed away from the wall to make room for paint cans, brushes, and newspapers matted on the floor. The only ...

Richard Ocasek: Beatitude

Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 19 February 1983

WITH THE Human League's American success, Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' now the longest-lasting single in the history of Billboard's Hot Hundred, and MTV deluging the ...

Ric Ocasek: Worms On A String Revisted

Interview by Michael Goldberg, Creem, March 1983

THE OFFICE IS dark and silent. Here, in one of the rooms where Elliot Roberts, creme de la creme of rock star managers, and his ...

Ric Ocasek: Beatitude (Geffen GHS2022)

Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, April 1983

WHY WOULD Ric Ocasek make a solo album? He's the songwriter for the Cars, as well as one of the lead singers. Not surprisingly, Beatitude ...

The Cars that ate America

Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 20 October 1984

AND NOW THEY'RE GAS-GUZZLING UP OUR OWN CHARTS. BUT TOP DRIVER RIC OCASEK IS MORE THAN JUST THE CARS' MAN IN THE FRONT SEAT — ...

You're All I've Got Tonight: Brush Your Rock& Roll Hair, Ric Ocasek's Gone To Heaven

Memoir by Holly Gleason, hollygleason.com, September 2019

IT WAS COLD, steely but not metal. It swirled and encircled you like a cartoon vine, only it was staccato – and the beat was so evident. ...

see also Cars, The

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