How Ric Ocasek Met Paulina Porizkova, and Helped Define the ’80s, With the Cars’ Weird Music Videos

“Ric has this kind of quirky persona,” Stein went on. “The Cars were never known for their riveting live performances, and I thought that if they made fun of themselves or their own image, it would take the wind out of that reputation.”

“Ric is just so unusual looking,” Cars drummer David Robinson told me. “I can’t think of anyone who’s looked like him since. He’s interested in films and he thought about the way he was going to come across.”an accomplished British surrealist who’d worked a lot with the Cure, directed “Magic,” in which Ocasek amazes a crowd of acolytes by walking on water in a swimming pool. “The band doesn’t show up until the guitar solo,” Robinson grumbled. “My own mother saw the video and said I wasn’t in it.

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