Remembering Ric Ocasek, who died yesterday in Manhattan at the age of 75.
Depending on your age and how deeply immersed in music you’ve been, you might know Ric Ocasek—he died yesterday in Manhattan at the age of 75—as the frontman of the Cars, the game-changing new wave band you listened to as a kid; as the lifelong champion and producer of game-changing punk and hard-core bands Suicide and Bad Brains; as the producer behind bands ranging from Guided by Voices, Brazilian Girls, and Le Tigre to No Doubt, Weezer, D Generation, Bad Religion, the Cribs, and Nada Surf;...
For Porizkova, who met Ocasek on the set of the Cars’ video shoot for “Drive” after crushing on him on MTV , Ocasek was nothing less than “a combination of Mr. Spock, David Bowie, Jesus Christ, and Chopin.
The Cars put out five indelible albums between 1978 and 1984 and two all-too-delible albums in 1987 and 2011, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year by Brandon Flowers of the Killers, who wasn’t alone in proclaiming the Cars’ self-titled first album “one of the greatest debut albums ever made.” “The Cars had it all,” Flowers continued. “The looks, the hooks, Beat-romance lyrics, killer choruses, guitar solos that pissed off your parents, dazzling music videos.
It’s really after the Cars’ breakup in 1988, though, that Ocasek’s true range and bandwidth became apparent—in his solo records , but also through acting, painting, and drawing. But his production work deserves its own hall of fame entry: Aside from merely drawing attention to bands and artists he liked, the work itself showed Ocasek to be what a musician friend of mine called a true “sonic hero.
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