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Pádraig Collins
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Username: Pádraig_collins

Post Number: 9017
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Monday, September 16, 2019 - 03:50 am:   

Very sad news. I had no idea he was that age. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/s ep/16/ric-ocasek-frontman-of-the-cars-di es-aged-75
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 4212
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 05:08 am:   

I was surprised by that too, Padraig. It kind of explains their sound, which I always thought too conservative for them to count as new wave. No wonder. The band formed in 1976, the year I turned 20. And he was 32 or 33. He was barely younger than the Beatles.

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