{"name":"Ric Ocasek","title":"Ric Ocasek","id":947,"slug":"ric-ocasek","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/947/?format=json","bio_short":"Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide.  Solo music career  The visually distinctive, very slender singer released his first solo album in 1982. Beatitude is a somewhat more experimental variation of The Cars' New Wave rock sound. A more synthesizer-heavy follow up, This Side Of Paradise, was released in 1986. A minor hit, "Emotion In Motion" accompanied the album. ","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/RicOcasek.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":1036,"title":"Drive","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/drive/"}]}