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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, and co-founder of the band the Cars.
The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes , and David Robinson . Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader.
Orr was born Benjamin Orzechowski in Lakewood in 1947 and grew up in Parma, attending Valley Forge High School in the 1960s, where my future wife would graduate more than 20 years later.
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.
[56] [57] In 1984, she met Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band the Cars, during the filming of their music video "Drive". [58] The two married on 23 August 1989. [59] [10] They had two sons, Jonathan Raven Ocasek (born 4 November 1993) [58] and Oliver Ocasek (born 1999). [60] In May 2018, Porizkova announced she and Ocasek had separated a ...
"Drive", a cover of the Cars' 1984 hit, was a bonus track on the Untucked CD and was recorded immediately following the album sessions. A mash up of Carlson's "Drive" and the original "Drive", featuring the Cars' Benjamin Orr, spent 3 weeks at No. 1 on Los Angeles radio station KBIG FM and also hit the Top 5 at sister station KOST FM.
Elliot Easton (born Steinberg, [1] December 18, 1953) [2] is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the American new wave band the Cars. His melodic guitar solos are an integral part of the band's music.
Amid reports that Ben Affleck has moved into a rental home given ongoing marital issues with Jennifer Lopez, it seems as though pictures of the $60 million mansion he shares with his wife just hit ...