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The Story of The Cars & Ric Ocasek: From folk rock origins to new wave royalty
If any band defines the long odds of the garage-to-stadiums journey...it’s The Cars. Grinding through years in Boston, they cycled through wildly different sounds before finally striking gold—fusing punk edge with pop precision to help define a new musical decade.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
How bandleader Ric Ocasek and his partner Ben Orr struggled for years to unlock their breakthrough sound
The surprising number of genres the band attemped before succeeding
The reveal of the secret formula of musical styles they combined and perfected
The strange, behind-the-scenes reasons the band…
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