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Benjamin Orr (born Benjamin Orzechowski, September 8, 1947 – October 3, 2000) was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, ...
Orr died Oct. 4, 2000, of pancreatic cancer at age 53. The Cars take a portrait for the 1979 album "Candy-O." Pictured from left are Benjamin Orr, Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes, David Robinson and ...
Benjamin Orr (pictured in 1978) died of pancreatic cancer in October 2000. Greg Hawkes played bass on Move Like This, while Weezer's Scott Shriner played bass with the band at its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. In the late 1990s, unsubstantiated rumors circulated of a Cars reunion.
Ocasek and Cars co-founder Benjamin Orr were close friends who became estranged when the band broke up. The two reconciled prior to Orr's death in 2000. Their friendship was commemorated in the song "Silver", which Ocasek wrote in memory of Orr. [12] [40] [41] Ocasek was married three times. His first wife Constance divorced him in Ohio in 1971.
Move Like This is the seventh and final studio album by American rock band the Cars, released on May 10, 2011.It was their first since 1987's Door to Door, and the only one without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who had died of pancreatic cancer in 2000.
Atlanta Rapper Trouble, real name Mariel Semonte Orr, died on Sunday, according to TKTK, from a gunshot wound TK. He was 34 years old.
Singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, guitarist Elliot Easton and drummer David Robinson performed as a quartet, as original Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000. [4] Orr's bass parts were performed by Hawkes on keyboard and bass, while the vocals on songs originally sung by Orr ("Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and ...
Three years after Benjamin's death, Lisa Marie died at age 54 of a small bowel obstruction, a long-term complication from bariatric surgery. A month before her death, ...