Though he's best-known as the author of seemingly non-threatening, ultra-radio-friendly power-pop smashes like Just What I Needed and My Best Friend's Girl, Ric Ocasek – the late frontman and rhythm ...

Musician Ric Ocasek of The Cars was a big deal in the music world. In addition to being a lead singer, a rhythm guitarist and a successful songwriter and music producer, he was also inducted into the ...

When news of Ric Ocasek’s death broke earlier this month, the range of artists who grieved publicly—Beck, Ice T, Nile Rodgers—showed the wide influence the Cars achieved as one of the most popular new ...

One evening in late-nineties Boston, enjoying a little after-work jaywalking between idling cars, I noticed, with a jolt, an S.U.V. creeping toward me. I looked up at the car to see Ric Ocasek behind ...

RIC OCASEK spent much of his late teens in the basement of his parents’ house in Cleveland, Ohio. First it was a darkroom for his photographs and prints. Then it was a laboratory. Mr Ocasek’s father ...