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Ocasek was born in Baltimore on March 23, 1944. [a] [12] His paternal side was of Czech descent, [13] [14] [15] and he grew up Catholic. [16] When he was 16 years old, his father moved the family back to the Otcasek hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a systems analyst with NASA at the Lewis Research Center. [17]
Oct 18, 2019 · The Cars frontman and producer was a mysterious and enigmatic figure, who struggled with pain and loneliness despite his pop success. Learn about his childhood, marriages, music, and the artists he influenced.
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- David Browne
Oct 25, 2021 · Porizkova found Ocasek dead at age 75 in their $10 million Gramercy Park townhouse and, the following day, discovered he’d rewritten his will just weeks before and had cut her out entirely,...
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Sep 17, 2019 · Ocasek was already 34 years old when the group released its self-titled debut in 1978, and a creaky 37 when MTV came online in August 1981. Incredibly, Neil Young and Eric Clapton are both...
Sep 18, 2019 · Ric Ocasek, photographed in New York in June, 1995 — the same year a young Matthew Caws handed him a demo recording of his band, Nada Surf.
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Sep 16, 2019 · Sarah Larson writes about the life and work of Ric Ocasek, who died on Sunday, at seventy-five, and was a singer for the Cars and a producer for other artists.
Sep 18, 2019 · Ric Ocasek of The Cars died on Sunday, aged 75. To mark his passing, we look back at how the band created one of the best debut albums of all time.
