We were saddened to hear about Ric Ocasek’s passing over the weekend. The lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for the Boston-based band The Cars, produced an incredible catalog of music. The impact ...

Tim McGraw is speaking out about the death of the Cars' lead singer, Ric Ocasek, revealing the impact his music had on his own life. Ocasek died on Sunday (Sept. 15), and McGraw turned to social media ...

The Cars lead vocalist and founding member Ric Ocasek died of cardiovascular disease, according to an autopsy report released Monday by the New York City medical examiner’s office. Pulmonary emphysema ...

After hearing the sad news that Ric Ocasek, co-frontman for the Cars, died on Sunday, I immediately conjured an image of Ocasek in my head. That image was of Ric Ocasek as a fly. Then, Ocasek as a ...

You might be surprised to learn, as I was, that Ric Ocasek of the Cars, who passed away this weekend in his New York City apartment at the age of 75, was older or the same age as any of the members of ...

Cue up “My Best Friend’s Girl.” Hit play. Let it seep in to you: the chugging hot rod guitar in second gear, those magic hand claps, that cool, almost-chilly voice that still manages to have miles of ...

frontman whose deadpan vocal delivery and lanky, sunglassed look defined a rock era with chart-topping hits like “Just What I Needed,” was discovered dead Sunday afternoon in his Manhattan apartment.

PREVIOUSLY, September 15: Ric Ocasek, the spindly frontman of the Cars who was inducted last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with his New Wave bandmates, is dead, according to ...

The recent deaths of musicians Eddie Money and Ric Ocasek of The Cars got me thinking an awful lot about rock and roll, my teenage years and mortality. I came through all of this thinking feeling less ...

It’s almost impossible to do now, after decades of continuous radio play that’s rendered the Cars’ music as familiar as the smell of your own automobile. But put on “Just What I Needed” or “Let’s Go” ...

The wife of Ric Ocasek, the 75-year-old frontman for The Cars who died Sunday, said she "touched his cheek to rouse him" from sleep when she realized he had passed away. Ocasek's wife, model and ...