The Cars The Cars

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• Strange that in the car-crazy USA it was not until the mid-70s that a band came up with the idea of calling themselves The Cars. The group around lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek was founded in 1976 in Boston. When their debut album was released in 1978, Ocasek, Greg Hawkes (keyboards), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass, vocals) and David Robinson (drums) were already in their mid-twenties to early thirties, something like musical late bloomers. But almost nobody noticed that, because optically they would almost all have gone through for five years younger..

  In 1978 the term ‘New Wave’ was just beginning to establish itself and the Cars were also thrown into this pot, which wasn’t quite correct in terms of style, as the band actually played a rather stunning ‘Power Pop’ right fr