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Did the video affect your dating life at the time?Yes. It changed everything.Just before I did the video, I had been dating a guy (certainly not a man) who was physically abusive. A few months before I interviewed for the video, the loser I was with knocked me out with one punch. It is not hard to do with a sucker punch. It is not an easy situation to explain except that physical abuse in conjunction with psychological abuse is a “dog chases tail” existence.I had left the guy, but he was stalking me. The end came when he showed up at my mother’s house on an afternoon when both of my older brothers were visiting. He came to the back gate and my brothers both jumped up and said they needed to talk to him first (they had seen the bruises on my arms before, and the sucker punch was the last straw).
After they spoke to him, he just left. It was a year or two later that I found out that my brothers told him that if they ever saw him again or heard that he had been anywhere within a mile of me, they would take care of business.So when I did the video, I was fresh out of hell.On the first day of the shoot, I met the drummer Stan Lynch. He was 29 and so attractive to me at the time.
I didn’t even consider that he would be attracted to me because he was a cute musician at the height of his fame, and besides, there were three beautiful models on set (in the black and white slinky muse outfits) hanging out with the single band mates most of the time.There were two occasions on set when I felt that perhaps he had noticed me. When we were about to do a camera run-through, the three guys (Benmont Tench, Stan Lynch, and Howie Epstein) were arranged around a very tall and wide chair that I was sitting in (the scene where Howie serves me the cupcakes and then each band member steals them one by one). While we were all making small talk, Stan did a very dramatic sniff in the air and said, “Wow, what is that perfume you are wearing?” I replied, “It’s called Sweet Honesty.” And without skipping a beat, Benmont said, “I think he meant me—it’s called Filthy Liar.” We laughed, me especially, because it was such perfect timing. Though it dashed what I found out to be Stan’s icebreaker line.Later, Stan approached me and complimented me on the very first shot I had done with the handheld camera guy (who was the first to give me the “always had a fantasy about Alice in Wonderland” line).So for the rest of that first day, it was a little easier for us to have conversations.On the last day, he stayed (after 24-hour nonstop filming) even though the band had been dismissed. After that last shot in the teacup, he asked me if I’d like to go to breakfast. As much as I was coming out of my skin with excitement and flattery, I declined because I was exhausted.So he took my phone number instead.He called me a day or so later and asked me out.
This began our five-year relationship. I went from being a starving actress to the girlfriend of a rock star. When we began dating, I was driving an old, mustard-colored Chrysler Newport (440 engine!) that was truly an eyesore.
Stan drove either his Black Jaguar XKE or his restored red 1970s convertible. It was a beautiful, huge, heavy old car.
I think he was embarrassed by that car.We had met in March and he had invited me to spend Easter with him at Don Henley’s house on Mulholland Drive in Hollywood. I, of course, accepted. My baptism into this world was unbelievable to me, even to this day.
When we entered, we did a lot of introductions and shaking hands. Then after a while, we were sort of sent out to the backyard for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. But before we walked out I had noticed about three drop-dead gorgeous women sitting on Don’s large curved couch. I said to Stan, “I feel bad for those girls.
Nobody is talking to them and they aren’t even talking to each other.” He snickered and said, “Those girls are brought in for anyone who doesn’t have a date. They’re probably Playboy bunnies.”Reeling from that weirdness, I stepped out to the yard and saw Mary Kay Place and many musicians who were well known. I had a cocktail with Mary Kay Place. That was surreal.Then it came time to sit down to eat on a beautifully laid out table under a huge old tree.
Next thing I know, this woman sits next to me and starts talking to everyone. Like the life of the party had just shown up, the whole table came alive. The man sitting across from her was wearing a checkered suit, a checkered shirt, a checkered tie, checkered shoes, and a checkered hat. It was the most fun outfit I had ever seen. Then I realized that his wife was the woman next to me. When I turned to sneak a glance at her, I was breathless because it was Bette Midler. She told some jokes that day that I tell people to this day, always giving credit for the joke—“Bette Midler told me that one.”Don stood up and explained that “This ham is from so-and-so’s in Virginia, this one was flown in from so-and-so’s in France.” Then he announced that the dirty rice and gumbo was from his mother and had been flown in fresh that morning.”It was a long day and Don asked me if I could start the tea kettles (I happened to be in his kitchen with the staff) while the staff began prepping desserts.
I agreed easily because I was a little uncomfortable being a small-time actress around some very famously artistic people. I filled about four tea kettles and was standing there in front of the stove when someone says right in my ear, “A watched pot never boils.” I turned and it was Jack Nicholson. All I could manage was a kind of huffing giggle.The reason I started telling you about the Easter lunch was because when Stan asked me to go, I asked what I should wear. He asked if I had anything “Easter-y.” I told him I would find something appropriate, but he said, “No, let’s go together and find you something.” I was so embarrassed to have to tell him that I couldn’t afford to get a new anything.
He said he was going to get it for me.The Saturday before Easter, I came to his house and he had ordered a limo. We went to the Laura Ashley store in Brentwood where he had made us an appointment to shop. We were escorted to a beautiful dressing room, much like a bridal salon, where two women waited on us hand and foot. I left there with a few new skirts and as many shirts.The first time I went to Stan’s apartment I thought it odd that his living room had been converted to his bedroom.
After touring with him, it dawned on me that, after having spent so much time in hotel rooms, it made sense that the first thing you saw when you entered his apartment was the bed.During my time with Stan, I met (I’ll probably not remember all but my faves): Timothy Hutton, the Williams Brothers, Warren Zevon (he came over to get his career going again with Stan’s help), Eric Martin (Mr. Big), Maren Jensen (Battlestar Galactica; she was with Don Henley), “Weird Al” Yankovic, Jon Anderson and Chris Squire (the band Yes), double-dated with Mimi Rogers (Tom Cruise’s first wife) and Don Henley, Ric Ocasek and his wife Paulina Porizkova, Bob Dylan, Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox (Eurythmics), Sammy Davis, Jr., Bill Cosby, David Letterman. And was in the same room with David Bowie, George Harrison, Elton John, Paul Simon.I traveled the continental U.S. Constantly to be with him on tour. We never moved in together but I spent the full five years living out of a suitcase. He made room for me in his closet, but I never really felt like we were in sync after the first year or so.I never really felt that Stan loved me completely. I felt that his emotions didn’t really scratch the surface of what it means to love someone.
He was a great guy, but we were worlds apart. Besides, he had no respect for my friends or family, so I didn’t spend much time with either (I always regretted choosing him over them).What really confused me during my time with him was this: he wanted me to be available to fly anywhere, at any time, to be with him on tour or at the beach house, and I loved him so fiercely that I would go to him anytime at the drop of a hat. But, at times, he would get pissy about small money matters like having to pay my cab fare to get to the airport. There was no way I could hold a job and keep our relationship alive.The end of us began in a strange way. I remember the very day that I began to pull away from him.I was at his beach house in Florida, where we spent a lot of time together. He had already left to begin recording in Los Angeles.
I stayed on after him. I called a friend of mine in Los Angeles and told her “Come to Florida. I have the beach house to myself and a grocery account and gas account.
I’ll have your ticket at the airport.whatever we need. Just come for the month.” And what she said to me threw me back into reality after about four years of this jaded life: “Wish, I have bills to pay. I have a roommate who depends on my half of the rent.
I have a job. I’ll get fired if I just get up and leave.”I had seriously forgotten what it was to support and depend on myself. Worse yet, in the back of my mind, I knew Stan and I were not soulmates.So I got a menial job at a pharmacy. Stan asked me to come out on tour a couple times, but I stuck to my guns. I began to like being independent.We drifted apart then back together for about six months.
Then one night I tried to talk to him one more time about our relationship, but he didn’t get it. So I never went back and I’ve lived in the real world ever since.After him, I dated for about six years until I met my husband, Yigal. I dated all kinds. My thought on dating was to never say no to anyone who asked me out unless they gave me the creeps or were too forward. I took it very seriously that you can never judge a book by its cover.
With this philosophy, I went on dates with a Foley artist, a really strange and moody poet, a guy who was seriously dumb as a brick, a guy who asked on the first date if I’d ever tied a man up and spanked him, a guy with Tourette’s, a deaf man, two jewelers (both extremely hairy, like even in a dress shirt it flowed out the collar), a reformed alcoholic (that was tough), a hairdresser, a guy who was void of any opinion or the ability to make a choice, an attorney (who felt even murderers deserved the best defense), a guy from Beirut who was the product of first cousins, and other strange men. I didn’t sleep around, just dated around.I met Yigal through a mutual friend, Mike.
I had gone to high school with Mike and he invited me to come to his band rehearsal on a Friday night. I could hardly take my eyes off Yigal. I thought he was so handsome. To this day he is the most handsome man I have ever met (except for a guy in an elevator of my apartment building carrying a bike; he said “Hello, it’s a gorgeous day out there today,” and I quite literally mumbled and stammered a string of unintelligible sounds while staring at him wide-eyed).Yigal and I eloped to Vegas and were married by an Elvis on 6/8/97.
Under pressure from friends (not family), we decided to have an actual wedding (on our one-year anniversary). So we had a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-themed wedding. With Edward Scissorhands music.Yigal is of Polish descent and his family still speaks Polish in the home. He was born in Jerusalem, raised in South Africa, and came to the U.S. As a teenager. With Yigal, I broke away from my habit of dating drummers (Stan was the third in a row) and switched to guitar. Yigal writes and records all-original music and I’d say he never goes a day without working on some instrument.He is still dreamy.Did you receive fan mail?
If so, do you still have any of it?I didn’t receive any fan mail after the video. If anyone had tried to find me it would have been a little difficult because I was a member of SAG before they joined forces with AFTRA and modeling was not at all my background. If I didn’t already tell you, I was the first SAG actress to do a music video. MTV was still fairly new at the time and I was one of the first contracts written for this type of film. I am unsure how it worked but I know it was the first time that I had to sign away any rights to my own image if it was picked up by satellite or any other devices by earth or “any other planet.” It was so funny at the time, but now I get it.While dating Stan, I was more recognized, especially in his circles.Found it herePublished two parts of the three. I hope that the last part will be of the next few days.
What were you paid?I got the one-time payment of, I think, $2,500. Since I was a starving actress, I managed to make it last about two months. I didn’t even get to keep the costume because it was ruined by the tea and frosting. But hey, I got to keep the spare torso cake and bring it home for family and friends.Wait, I did get to keep the wonky glasses that Petty wore in the video. Petty gave me his and said, “It’s okay, they got me two pairs.” And being a wordy person, I remember being disappointed that he would say two “pairs” instead of “pair.” (Talk about stupid stuff that we remember.)The payoff was the short term and long term fame it got me. In fact, I was recently in a credentialing class in Omaha and they went around the room and each person (maybe 15 attendees) had to give some info about themselves.
When they got to me I gave a spiel about human resource onboarding and recruiting systems I had consulted on, said that I was originally from California They asked me to tell an interesting thing about myself. I really hemmed and hawed trying to think of something interesting likeI have four kids? I love the beach? I have two chinchillas?Then one of the girls from my company, Linda, who was next in the interrogation, said loudly, “Seriously, Wish? I’ll handle this: she is Alice from the Tom Petty video.” Every single head turned!
All of a sudden there were conversations sprouting and people asking “Oh my god, seriously?” By the time they had finished the uncomfortable introductions, they had the video cued up and played it for everyone in the class.I still have a great pride in that video, even these 28 years later (just round it to 20, Marc. I was riding pretty high after that, feeling pretty good that even the younger people in the room remembered the video, until a young, pretty blond girl said, “I can’t wait to tell my mom. She really loved that video.” Yepher mom.No matter, I’ll be talking about it to anyone who will listen (and still make sense of the words) in the convalescent home.If you ever met other women who were female leads in a mainstream ‘80s rock video, who?I never met another woman from the rock video world because I was not a model. I was an actress through and through.
My agent at the time recommended that I open up to the option of modeling and print work but I didn’t have any interest.If you went to college, where and what did you study?No, nowhere, and nothing! But if I could do it all againI’d bean actress. What are you doing these days?I’ll go back as far as 1992.
I worked for five years at Walt Disney Feature Animation. I started as a production assistant on Hunchback of Notre Dame. I moved up to assistant to the production manager on Hercules.
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And my last year or two was as the coordinator for the camera department.My claim to fame there was this: I had film returned to me from Technicolor for the new release of Beauty and the Beast, and I spliced a new scene into the old film for the two directors to approve. As we watched, I noticed that in two frames, Belle’s legs are missing. So we rolled it back and I showed them. After a private powwow in the theater, they said, “That is the original footage from the movie, and nobody ever caught it.” it didn’t get me fame around the globe, oddly enough.In 1997, I married a fabulous musician/salesman (very much the same as actress/waitress), Yigal Cohen. (My maiden name was Foley so my name in the credits of Hercules was Wish Foley, which everyone at Disney thought was hysterical even though they had a guy named.)About a year ago I began learning computer stuff (thoroughly boring, but pays really well). Specifically, recruiting and onboarding systems.
So I help a client personalize the company’s optimum applicant tracking system. So I guess I make human resources departments’ dreams come true! Where do you live?I am born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. I lived in the Bay Area from 2002 through 2010.
Moved to the godforsaken state of New Mexico and existed in their waterless, freezing, zero-scaped dirt farm until 12/31/11. I played Powerball on our way out of Albuquerque. On New Year’s night we pulled into Texas. On January 1st, on our drive from Dallas to Houston, I checked my Powerball numbers and found I’d won $10,000. My husband and I still feel that was the only fond memory of New Mexico. I now live in a suburb of Houston. Wish described this photo as 'Alice-y.'
Tell me about your kids.I have four kids. I didn’t start my family until I was 33 because I didn’t take being a mother and wife lightly. I knew that the decision would be life-altering and had to really search myself to make sure I had what it takes.
I knew I would be giving up a lot when I had kids.Had in vitro, had a boy in 1998. His name is Mickey Cohen; didn’t know there had been a gangster with that name until two weeks before delivery.
He is 14 years old and he and his best friend are planning on going to MIT; thus, I am back to work. Mickey is a straight-A student.
He has always been a responsible, sweet boy, and is already a fabulous guitar player. He is already getting invites from colleges to check out their schools online.
Mickey was so easy to care for, right from birth, that we were lured into having another child.Next go-round we ordered a girl, paid $800 extra for sex selection, but got twin boys, Buster and Clyde (now 12 years old). Buster sings and does photography and Clyde is an amazing dancer and drummer.
Buster has a slightly raspy voice and loves singing in the school choir. I think he’ll make a great lead singer someday. Clyde, who was born three minutes after Buster, has the most incredible sense of timing and ingenuity with percussion instruments. And though they say that drummers can’t dance, he is a great breakdancer. His goal, at this point, is to be famous.I credit my dad for naming them because, while I was hugely pregnant, sluggish, and as-yet unaware of their sexes, my dad said, “In keeping with your nomenclature, you should name them Bonnie and Clyde if it’s a boy and girl.” We were actually going to christen them with those names until we found out it was two boys.
We kept “Clyde” and chose “Buster” for the other, in admiration for Buster Keaton (me) and Buster Poindexter (Yigal).We were happy to quit after three boys, but nature kicked in, we got pregnant naturally. We found out I was pregnant on my birthday, October 16. When they did the ultrasound, the woman thought I was weeping with joy. I was freaking out because I already had three children under three years.We had our daughter Charlie (as in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ). Mickey named her. I was an at-home mom and homeschooler for the next 11 years.Charlie is 11 and all-girl; she can’t wait to wear makeup, the more sparkles the better, and she loves anything pink.
She is already doing some acting and I am actively looking for an agent here in Texas. She and Buster were in a recent rock video. We did the 48 Hour Film Project here in Houston in November 2012. After she did that video, they called her back on three occasions to take on more roles. Perhaps being a stage mother is in my future.Buster didn’t really enjoy the filming. He couldn’t stop giggling and grinning so some of his work ended up on the cutting room floor.What do your kids think of the video?The kids didn’t really understand how popular the video was in its time. So they have only recently discovered that their teachers or their friends’ moms would be impressed by the revelation of who their mother is/was.
After they let word out, the video has been shown in their classrooms.What did you think when you first heard from me?I was delighted. You have been so forgiving of my nightmare schedule and I thank you for sticking with me and roping me back in when I get too caught up with the everyday necessary work.
Sending you my responses has been sweet, and sometimes bittersweet. I liken it to walking through the garden that is my life and enjoying not only the beautiful and plentiful flowers around me but also enjoying the dirt that surrounds them and made them grow.Recounting to you my time with Stan made me a little sad (and almost angry) because I was so malleable at that time and I gave everything up to be with him. I get upset about how much time I innocently invested in him and then how stupid I was to have stayed on so long after I knew it was unhealthy.
I try to never look back with a negative eye, so I have been contemplating the wonderful, positive changes and lessons that were brought on by that experience.Also, I lost my mother last August and I am still struggling with her passing. She was my greatest supporter throughout my life and was the most positive loving person I have ever known (and I have known many people from many walks of life).
One of her greatest messages was to always look for the positive in very circumstance. But I still cannot find anything positive about her death.In recounting her devotion I have written some of this through tears. But I thank you for that as well. Has anyone else ever interviewed about this? If so, who, when, and for what publication?Yes. I was contacted by Rob Tannenbaum to give him a blurb about working on the video for a book he co-authored, I Want My MTV. Even though it was just a short blurb that got into the book, it was great talking to him because he was familiar with all the players I talked about.
I gave him a lot of dirt off the record. For you, I didn’t hold back, much.Have you appeared at any fan conventions to sign autographs? If not, would you?I have never done anything like that. I didn’t even know that there was such a thing. Yes, I’d love to do that.
I just can’t imagine who would be interested.Did you stay in touch with Tom Petty? Are you still in touch?
If not, when were you last in touch?I didn’t keep in touch with Tom after Stan and I split up. I think that because Tom and Stan had such ugly relations at one point, I would be considered the enemy to a certain degree. (I did keep in touch with a friend of Stan’s, Marty Jourard—he was the sax player for the Motels.
He still gigs around in Seattle and sits in with different bands that come through town.)I did go to a Petty concert in 2011 and two of the people I was with asked if they could send a note backstage to Tom telling him I was there. I told them I didn’t mind but it had been close to 25 years since I had hung out with the band. So the notes both went back separately and we never heard anything from anyone.I am not sure how I feel about that. At first I thought that they’ve probably heard from tons of people with their own “remember me?” notes and why should I be any different?
But then it kind of bothered me that they (if the whole band had known about the note) were so very disinterested. If not nostalgia, then perhaps curiosity on their part. But I finally got over myself and remembered that I am just some chick who was in their video a long time ago. So I got over it and moved on.Anything you’d like to add?I am proud of being in such a popular video and flattered that people remember me and my performance. I had my three minutes and they were fabulous!
The CarsBackground:“People tell me all the time that I look forbidding oraloof. That doesn't bother me much.
I am fairly private, withdrawnand distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.” Ric OcasekRic Ocasek is best known as the lead singer, rhythm guitarist andprimary songwriter for the American rock group The Cars. Founded inBoston in 1976, the band rocketed to stardom with their debut album“The Cars” (1978), which made the Top 20 on the Billboard200 and received multiple platinum certification from RIAA. Alongwith lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr (died in 2000), guitaristElliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson,Ocasek continued to enjoy success with multi platinum records like“Candy-O” (1979), “Shake It Up” (1981) and“Heartbeat City” (1984) although The Cars broke up inFebruary 1988. Ocasek wrote the group's four Top 10 hits “ShakeIt Up,” “You Might Think,” “Drive” and“Tonight She Comes.” After over two decades, thesurviving Cars were reunited in 2010. In May 2011, they released anew album titled “Move Like This,” their first since1987's “Door to Door.” Ocasek began his solo career in1982 with “Beatitude” while The Cars went on hiatus.Since then, he has released seven solo records, including “ThisSide of Paradise” (1986), “Fireball Zone” (1991),“Quick Change World” (1993), “Negative Theater”(1993, European release only), “Getchertikitz” (1996),“Troublizing” (1997) and “Nexterday” (2005).His most popular solo single, “Emotion in Motion” (1986),rose to No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit the No.
1 spot on theBillboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Ocasek has also producedfor a wide variety of other artists over the years.Richard OtcasekChildhood and Family:Richard T. Otcasek, who would later be famous as Ric Ocasek, wasborn on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland. When he was 16, hisfather, who was a computer analyst for NASA, was transferred toCleveland, Ohio.
It was during this period that he developed a lovefor music through early rockers like Buddy Holly & The Crickets.After graduating high school in Cleveland, he attended Bowling GreenState University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He later moved to Boston andformed The Cars.After his first marriage ended in divorce, Ric married SuzanneOtcasek in 1984. They had three children, Derek Otcasek, Eron J.Otcasek and Christopher Otcasek, before divorcing. Ric was stillmarried to Suzanne when he met model Paulina Porizkova on the set ofthe music video for The Car's song “Drive.” The two, whohave a 16 year age gap, eventually married on August 23, 1989. In May1993, Paulina gave birth to the couple's first child, Jonathan RavenOcasek. Their second child, Oliver Orion Ocasek, was born on May 23,1998.Emotion in MotionCareer:After moving to Boston, Ric Ocasek played in a string of groups.His breakout success arrived when he formed the band The Cars in 1976with longtime friend Benjamin Orr, whom he met while in Ohio,keyboardist Greg Hawkes, lead guitarist Elliot Easton and drummerDavid Robinson.
Ocasek sang lead vocals and was the principal songwriter of the band. He also played rhythm guitar and synthesizer.Signed to Elektra Records in 1977, The Cars released theireponymous debut album on June 6, 1978. The album peaked at No. 18 onthe Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by RIAA on December 27,1978. It has since achieved 6x platinum certification in the U.S. Thealbum produced three hit singles with “Just What I Needed,”“My Best Friend's Girl” and “Good Times Roll,”which rose to No.
41 on the Billboard Hot 100,respectively. Ocasek wrote all these three songs and five more trackson the album and co-wrote a track titled “Moving in Stereo”with Hawkes. He provided lead vocals on “My Best Friend's Girl”and “Good Times Roll.”Ocasek and his band mates resurfaced with “Candy-O” onJune 3, 1979. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and wentplatinum within two months thanks to the hit singles “Let's Go”(#14) and “It's All I Can Do” (#41).
The third single,“Double Life,” failed to chart. “Candy-O” hassince been certified 4x platinum by RIAA. Released on August 15,1980, the third studio album, “Panorama,” hit the No.
5spot on the Billboard 200 and went platinum in the U.S. Three singleswere released from the album but only “Touch and Go”successfully charted on the Billboard Hot 100 when it rose to No. 37.The Cars released the fourth album, “Shake It Up,” onNovember 6, 1981. It peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and wentdouble platinum in the U.S. Ocasek provided lead vocals on the threeof the four singles released from the album: “Shake It Up”(#4 US Hot 100, #2 US Rock), “Since You're Gone” (#41 USHot 100, #24 US Rock) and “Victim of Love” (#39 US Rock).After their 1982 tour, The Cars took a short break.It was during the break that Ocasek launched his solo debut album,“Beatitude,” on December 30, 1982, on Geffen Records.
Thealbum, which Ocasek produced, featured an appearance by Cars' memberGreg Hawkes on keyboards. The first single, “Something to GrabFor,” rose to No. 47 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.
5 on theBillboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The follow up singles, “JimmyJimmy” and “Connect Up to Me,” charted at No. 25 onthe Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and No. 37 on the Hot Dance ClubSongs, respectively.Ocasek was reunited with The Cars for the album “HeartbeatCity,” which was released on March 13, 1984. A firstpartnership with producer Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, the album peakedat No.
3 on the Billboard 200 and received 4x platinum in the U.S.The album was also a success in the U.K. (#25), New Zealand (#1),“Germany (#15), Australia (#15) and Switzerland (#20). Thealbum spawned five hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with “YouMight Think” (#7), “Magic” (#12), “Drive”(#3), “Hello Again” (#20) and “'Why Can't IHave You” (#33), with the first two singles also hitting theNo.
1 spot on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. A successfulcompilation album, “Greatest Hits,” was released onOctober 25, 1985, by Elektra Records. It made the Top 20 on theBillboard 200 and was certified 6x platinum by RIAA. The firstsingle, “Tonight She Comes,” went to No. 7 on theBillboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream RockTracks. Following this, The Cars took time off again to pursue soloprojects.On September 15, 1986, Ocasek released his second solo album,“This Side of Paradise.” The lead single, “Emotionin Motion,” rose to No.
15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The second single, “True toYou,” peaked at No. 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 9 onthe Mainstream Rock Tracks.On August 25, 1987, Ocasek and the band were reunited for thealbum “Door to Door,” which charted at No. 26 on theBillboard 200.
The album spawned three singles with “You Arethe Girl,” “Strap Me In” and “Coming Up You,”which rose to No. 74, respectively, on theBillboard Hot 100 with the first two hits also charting on No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, respectively. Unlike theirprevious records, “Door to Door” only went gold in theU.S. And The Cars disbanded in February 1988.After the breakup of The Cars, Ocasek withdrew from the public eyefor a couple of years and resurfaced with his album “FireballZone,” which was released on June 25, 1991, on Reprise Records.He co-produced the album with Nile Rodgers.
One track, “Rockaway,”received a short stay on the charts. His next solo effort, “QuickChange World,” followed on September 28, 1993.
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It was his lastalbum with Reprise. The same year, he also released “NegativeTheater” in Europe through Warner EU. Ocasek continued torelease other solo efforts for various labels, including 1996's“Getchertikitz” (Sound Effects), 1997's “Troublizing”(Sony Entertainment) and 2005's “Nexterday”(Sanctuary/Inverse).In 2010, Ocasek was reunited with the surviving members of TheCars (Benjamin Orr died of pancreatic cancer on October 3, 2000). TheCars released a new album titled “Move Like This” on May10, 2011, on the Hear Music label. The album, which is the group'sfirst album since 1987's “Door to Door,” rose to No.
7 onthe Billboard 200. The lead single, “Sad Song,” chartedat No. 25 on the Billboard Rock Chart.Ocasek also produced Bad Brains' “Rock for Light,”Guided by Voices' “Do the Collapse” and Weezer's “BlueAlbum” and “Green Album.” Other artists he hasworked with include Suicide, Romeo Void, Hole, Bebe Buell, No Doubt,Nada Surf, Irish folk-punk band Black 47, Bad Religion, Johnny Bravo,D Generation, The Wannadies, Possum Dixon, Martin Rev, JonathanRichman, and Pink Spiders.Awards.