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Gregory A. Hawkes (born October 22, 1952) is an American musician who is best known as the keyboardist and founding member of the American new wave band the Cars. Hawkes is credited with helping popularize new wave and synth-pop in American popular music as a member of the Cars.
Oct 21, 2022 · Drive (get it?) off a cliff, “Used Cars.” You don’t even have the balls to use your real name, let alone showing your ignorance in music. If you knew anything, you would know that Greg Hawkes was a major influence on the use of synth back in the 80’s.
Jun 8, 2023 · Over the past few years, Hawkes — best known as the keyboardist in The Cars, the Boston new wave band that exploded in the late 1970s and ‘80s — has become a bit obsessed with John...
Mullti-talented musician Greg Hawkes was born on October 22 in 1952. He originally hails from Fulton, Maryland. Hawkes attended Atholton High School. The first band he was a member of was the Advarks. Greg majored in flute and composition at the Berklee College of Music.
The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek ( rhythm guitar ), Benjamin Orr ( bass guitar ), Elliot Easton ( lead guitar ), Greg Hawkes ( keyboards ), and David Robinson ( drums ). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's ...
Jun 8, 2022 · On the first Friday in June, we Boston-based Cars fans got a treat: Hawkes – who’s been busy over the years as a sideman for Todd Rundgren, the Motels and the Turtles – hooked up with a Boston septet called Eddie Japan and they put together a corker of a show at our local City Winery.
Mullti-talented musician Greg Hawkes was born on October 22 in 1952. He originally hails from Fulton, Maryland. Hawkes attended Atholton High School. The first band he was a member of was the Advarks. Greg majored in flute and composition at the Berklee College of Music.
As the keyboardist for the legendary Boston band and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members, The Cars, Greg Hawkes forged the sound of rock’s New Wave.
Mar 13, 2024 · The album Heartbeat City is a major component of the drivetrain that eventually powered The Cars into the winner’s circle at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but as you will hear from Cars keyboard player Greg Hawkes, there were unintended consequences to the price of perfection four decades ago.
Nov 7, 2021 · Cars- Shake It Up 40th anniversary- Greg Hawkes, the late Ric Ocasek. Contrary to the checkered flag cover art on The Cars ‘ 1980 album Panorama , for that third lap the band had finished back in the pack as compared to the winners circle finishes of the first two, 1978’s multi-platinum debut The Cars and the high octane follow-up Candy O.
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