The Cars Shake It Up Ric Ocasek T Shirt

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The Cars Shake It Up Ric Ocasek T Shirt . Shake It Up is the fourth studio album by American rock band the Cars, released in 1981. It was the last album by the Cars to be produced by Roy Thomas Baker. A much more pop-oriented album than its predecessor, its title track became their first Billboard top ten hit.

The Cars Shake It Up Ric Ocasek T Shirt . Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek (/oʊˈkæsɛk/), was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and painter. He was the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band the Cars. In 2018, Ocasek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars.^[2] That same year, he exhibited a number of his paintings in a national tour.

The Cars Shake It Up Ric Ocasek T Shirt .  Ocasek was born on March 23, 1944,^[4] and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.^[5] When Ocasek was 16 years old, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from Maple Heights High School in 1963.^[6][7] Ocasek briefly attended Antioch College and Bowling Green State University, but dropped out to pursue a career in music.

The Cars Shake It Up Ric Ocasek T Shirt . Ocasek met future Cars bassist Benjamin Orr in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program.^[10] He reconnected with Orr a few years later in Columbus, Ohio, and the two began booking bands together. They formed a band called ID Nirvana in 1968 and performed in and around Ohio State University.

The Cars Shake It Up Ric Ocasek T Shirt . Ocasek was a founding member of the Cars, recording numerous hit songs from 1978 to 1988. He played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals for a majority of songs (bassist Benjamin Orr was lead vocalist on the remaining tracks). After splitting writing duty with Orr in the 1970s, Ocasek became the principal songwriter of the band, and wrote nearly all of the Cars’ material, sharing credit on only a few songs with bandmate Greg Hawkes as co-writer. In 2010, Ocasek reunited with the surviving original members of the Cars to record their first album in 24 years, titled Move Like This, which was released on May 10, 2011.

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