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The Cars were an American rock band who recorded 89 songs during their career, of which included 86 originals and 3 covers.Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, the group consisted of singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek, bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
The song is most associated with the July 1985 Live Aid event, where it was performed by The Cars during the Philadelphia event; the song was also used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced by British musician David Bowie.
The song was originally previewed by the band as a 73-second sample on their Facebook page in October 2010. [1] A full video for the song was released February 17, 2011. [2] The music video was co-produced by Eron Ocasek, one of Ric's sons. [3]
The discography of the American rock band the Cars includes seven studio albums, eight compilation albums, four video albums and 26 singles. Originating in Boston in 1976, [1] the band consisted of singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer/bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
The music video for the song was directed by Andy Warhol and Don Munroe. [9] Warhol appeared in the video as a bartender, which was filmed at the Be-Bop Cafe in Manhattan. [10] Dianne Brill and John Sex of the downtown New York scene made cameos. [10] A then-unknown Gina Gershon also appeared in the video.
A clip of a song titled "Free" was shared on January 1, 2011. The official debut video for "Blue Tip" was released on February 17. The video features the members of the band and New York-based street artist Joe Iurato. The surviving Cars agreed to not replace Orr, so Hawkes and Lee handled all of the bass parts. [17]
"My Best Friend's Girl" begins with chords in the lower register of the guitar, a two-bar progression moving from I to IV to V in F. [6] Hand claps enter in bar five, and after the eight-bar intro (following descending synthesizer sounds from David Robinson's Syndrums,) the first verse begins featuring Ric Ocasek's vocals over a lead guitar lick in the key of F. [6] An electronic piano (a ...
Unlike many of the Cars' album covers, the cover for The Cars was designed by the record company, rather than drummer Robinson. [7] Robinson said in an interview that he "had designed a very different album cover [for The Cars] that cost $80.00 to design." He continued, "I remember the price exactly.