The Cars
"Drive"
Single / B-side: "Stranger Eyes"
Album: Heartbeat City
Released: 23 July 1984
Writer:Ric Ocasek
Label: Elektra
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The music video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton and features model and actress Paulina Porizkova, who would later become Ric Ocasek's wife. The video alternates between shots of Orr sitting in a disused nightclub, facing mannequins posed at the bar as customers and bartender, and scenes that depict the breakdown of a relationship between the characters played by Ocasek and Porizkova. Ultimately left alone, the woman cries and laughs hysterically for a time before visiting the nightclub. She looks sadly in through a dirty window at the stage, where tuxedo-clad mannequins of the band members are posed with their instruments as if playing a show, and turns to walk away as the video ends.
Line-up / Musicians:
Ric Ocasek – rhythm guitar, synthesiser
Elliot Easton – lead guitar, backing vocals
Greg Hawkes – keyboards, Fairlight programming, backing vocals
Benjamin Orr – bass, lead vocals
David Robinson – drums, percussion, Fairlight programming
With:
Andy Topeka: Additional Fairlight programming
Links / Reviews:
Wikipedia: Drive (The Cars song)
Songfacts: Drive by The Cars
Allmusic: Drive - The Cars / Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Singles of 1984: Pop's Greatest Year
The Cars Official Website: thecars.org
"Drive"
Single / B-side: "Stranger Eyes"
Album: Heartbeat City
Released: 23 July 1984
Writer:Ric Ocasek
Label: Elektra
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"Drive" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's Heartbeat City album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. It was written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange with the band. This was the Cars' highest-charting US single and their second-highest charting UK single, the highest bein "My Best Friend's Girl." The song was re-released one year later and use at the Live Aid concert in July 1985 as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine. Proceeds from the sales of the re-released song raised nearly £160,000 for the Band Aid Trust: Ocasek presented the charity's trusteeMidge Ure with a cheque for the amount while he was in London in November 1986 promoting his solo album This Side of Paradise.
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| The Cars' Single "Drive" 1984(Photo courtesy of Elektra) |
The Cars - "Drive" (vinyl, Heartbeat City, 1984)
The Cars - "Drive" (CBS Video, Live Aid 1985)
Cars bass player Ben Orr sang lead on this one. Orr died of Pancreatic cancer in 2000. When he died, this was played in his honor at a memorial service at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A very melancholy song by The Cars, "Drive" is written from the perspective of a guy who's watching a woman (who he presumably used to date) "going down the tubes," trying to get her to take a hard look at what's going on in her life.
In a retrospective review of the single, AllMusic journalist Donald A. Guarisco praised the song for being "a gorgeous ballad that matches heartfelt songwriting to an alluring electronic soundscape. The music reflects the lyrical tone with a lovely melody that rises and falls in a soothing yet sad fashion."
The Cars - "Drive" (music video)
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| The Cars 1985 |
The music video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton and features model and actress Paulina Porizkova, who would later become Ric Ocasek's wife. The video alternates between shots of Orr sitting in a disused nightclub, facing mannequins posed at the bar as customers and bartender, and scenes that depict the breakdown of a relationship between the characters played by Ocasek and Porizkova. Ultimately left alone, the woman cries and laughs hysterically for a time before visiting the nightclub. She looks sadly in through a dirty window at the stage, where tuxedo-clad mannequins of the band members are posed with their instruments as if playing a show, and turns to walk away as the video ends.
Line-up / Musicians:
Ric Ocasek – rhythm guitar, synthesiser
Elliot Easton – lead guitar, backing vocals
Greg Hawkes – keyboards, Fairlight programming, backing vocals
Benjamin Orr – bass, lead vocals
David Robinson – drums, percussion, Fairlight programming
With:
Andy Topeka: Additional Fairlight programming
Links / Reviews:
Wikipedia: Drive (The Cars song)
Songfacts: Drive by The Cars
Allmusic: Drive - The Cars / Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Singles of 1984: Pop's Greatest Year
The Cars Official Website: thecars.org
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