[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/arts/music/ric-ocasek-cars-dead.html"]Ric Ocasek[/URL]

[QUOTE=rudy235;525887][URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/arts/music/ric-ocasek-cars-dead.html"]Ric Ocasek[/URL][/QUOTE]
Sigh. My Best Friend's Girl
Edit: Sorry, I can't read enough of the NYT obit to know if I am repeating, but this song hooked me, back in the day.

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Eddie Money.

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/arts/music/eddie-money-dead.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=rudy235;525887][URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/arts/music/ric-ocasek-cars-dead.html"]Ric Ocasek[/URL][/QUOTE]

That 1978 debut album by The Cars was one of the first LPs I owned, and was the bomb - 40 years later, the songs still sound great. I see bassist Ben Orr died (at 53, pancreatic cancer) already back in 2000.

[QUOTE=kladner;525893]Sigh. My Best Friend's Girl

[YOUTUBE]XkSmLh2Hbi0[/YOUTUBE][/QUOTE]maybe ex friend's Girl

[QUOTE=kriesel;525959]maybe ex friend's Girl[/QUOTE]
The conflicted feelings are part of the charm. Sounds like the friend is still "best."

[QUOTE=ewmayer;525948]That 1978 debut album by The Cars was one of the first LPs I owned, and was the bomb - 40 years later, the songs still sound great. I see bassist Ben Orr died (at 53, pancreatic cancer) already back in 2000.[/QUOTE]
Dan tells me that Orr was also the singer, which I had not known. I [U]really[/U] liked/like his voice and delivery.

[URL="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75"]Cokie Roberts[/URL], Washington based Journalist

[QUOTE=kriesel;525959]maybe ex friend's Girl[/QUOTE]
It is interesting that the model seen in the 'Drive' Cars clip married Rick and stayed with him for decades (though not till the very end).
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[QUOTE=Batalov;526005]It is interesting that the model seen in the 'Drive' Cars clip married Rick and stayed with him for decades (though not till the very end).[/QUOTE]

Per IMDB, Ocasek had 3 wives over the decades (and 2 kids with each) with more or less no gaps between models - the last one was the hot Czech import. I see Paulina P. was born in 1965, which is roughly your age ... ex-g/f of yours, Sergey? "She left me for a musician", it's a story as old as humanity, my friend...

[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-robertson-federal-judge-who-took-stand-against-warrantless-surveillance-dies-at-81/2019/09/16/aabf4db8-d64b-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html?noredirect=on]James Robertson[/url][quote]James Robertson, a federal judge who drew national attention for his ruling on the rights of a foreign detainee in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and his resignation from a judicial surveillance panel to protest warrantless federal wiretapping, died Sept. 7 at a hospital in Washington. He was 81.[/quote]