Retour sur le cheminement du chanteur et du groupe après la sortie de "Just What I Needed". Si leur musique a d'abord fait un malheur dans la région de Boston où le groupe évoluait, un succès national et international ne tardera pas.
"This adventurous sonic sensibility matched his misfit persona. Writers tagged Ocasek as “impenetrable” or “dispassionate,” and he copped to being awkward. Though he wrote almost all the band’s songs and was an arresting singer, he ceded lead vocal duties on some of the band’s biggest and flashiest songs to the bassist Benjamin Orr. Ocasek hated touring and spent decades avoiding it after The Cars’ breakup, and instead spent his time recording solo music, producing others’ albums, writing poetry, and painting. When the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted The Cars in 2018, he rejoined the band for a performance that, he said, would be a fitting end to the group’s run. It did turn out to be Ocasek’s final show, capping a career that changed music by adhering to his own internal standard. “Success to me,” he had said in 1984, “is actually being able to write songs and like them when I finish them.”"
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