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"Candy-O" is a song by the American rock band the Cars, the title track of their 1979 album Candy-O. Written by Ric Ocasek, the song was not based on a real person. [1] The song features a prominent guitar solo by Elliot Easton and lead vocals by bassist Benjamin Orr.
Most of the songs on Candy-O were written after the release of The Cars, meaning that most of the leftovers from the first album (including the popular encore "Take What You Want") were scrapped; "Night Spots", a reject from the first album, was still included. [5] For the album, the band once again worked with Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker ...
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.
Greg Prato of AllMusic gave the album a positive review, with the editorial staff awarding it four out of five stars. Prato praises the diversity of the video choices while criticizing some of the quality of the recordings, summing up that it is "a most welcome addition to the Cars' discography". [1]
The home release of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is giving fans of the acclaimed film more insight into how Queen reacted to the movie's most accurate moments.In an exclusive clip obtained by AOL ...
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Ocasek was born in Baltimore on March 23, 1944. [a] [12] His paternal side was of Czech descent, [13] [14] [15] and he grew up Catholic. [16]When he was 16 years old, his father moved the family back to the Otcasek hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a systems analyst with NASA at the Lewis Research Center. [17]
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.