(Hear Music)The Cars' last burst of glory came in 1985, when the song Drive was used at Live Aid to soundtrack a videomontage of famine victims. They split up a few years later, and leader Ric Ocasek said there was no chance his band – one of America's definitive new-wave outfits, whose brittle synthpop has influenced a good few 21st-century acts – would ever reunite. Inevitably, though, they have. Bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000, but the other original members are on board, and they've ...
Guardian Music — (Hear Music)The Cars' last burst of glory came in 1985, when the song Drive was used at Live Aid to soundtrack a videomontage of famine victims. They split up a few years... more info