Ric Ocasek, front man for The Cars, has passed away.
This is Monday, and he was found in his home yesterday, so I guess it has been in the media overnight -- just read it this morning.
It is almost twenty years since the passing of Benjamin Orr, with whom his close musical partnership laid the foundation for The Cars. And I was sad for him last year on learning that his marriage, of over twenty-five years, had ended, I thought: he will not take this very well.
I recall reading, before they separated, that his former wife Paulina Porizkova and he, used to be labelled "Beauty and the Beast," and that Ocasek would playfully turn and say to his wife: