Tifany: Moving In Stereo
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The Cars are an
American rock band that emerged from the New Wave music scene in the late
1970s. The band originated in Boston, Massachusetts, with lead singer and
rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist
Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson. They were
signed to Elektra Records by George Daly,[1] then A&R head, in 1977.[2]
The Cars were at the
forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synth-oriented pop
that was then becoming popular and which would flower in the early 1980s. The
Cars started fresh with their debut album The Cars which went on to go platinum
in late 1978. The Cars' debut album was called a "genuine rock
masterpiece" by Allmusic. The most successful and well known song from the
album, "Just What I Needed", started as a demo in 1977. The song was
sent as a mix tape to a local DJ in the Boston area, who played the song in
heavy rotation. This soon caught the attention of other DJs, which led to the
signing of the band by Elektra Records in 1977. The Cars have mentioned this
numerous times including in their "last" interview in June 2000.
The band broke up in
1988, and Ocasek had always discouraged talk of a reunion since then, telling
one interviewer in 1997 "I'm saying never and you can count on
that."[3] Bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. In
2005, Easton and Hawkes joined with Todd Rundgren to form a spin-off band, The
New Cars, which performed classic Cars and Rundgren songs alongside new
material. The surviving original members reunited in 2010 to record a new
album, titled Move Like This, which was released May 10, 2011, and a tour to
start on the same day. -Wikipedia
