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Benjamin Orr (né Orzechowski, September 8, 1947 – October 4, 2000) was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars.
Orr was born Benjamin Orzechowski in Lakewood in 1947 and grew up in Parma, attending Valley Forge High School in the 1960s, where my future wife would graduate more than 20 years later.
Ocasek's then-wife Paulina Porizkova in 2014 Ocasek and Cars co-founder Benjamin Orr were close friends who became estranged when the band broke up. The two reconciled prior to Orr's death in 2000. Their friendship was commemorated in the 2005 solo song "Silver", which Ocasek wrote in memory of Orr. [1][33][34] Ocasek was married three times.
The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. [2] Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitar), Benjamin Orr (bass guitar), Elliot Easton (lead guitar), Greg Hawkes (keyboards) and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals. Ric Ocasek was the band's leader and took sole song writing credits for practically ...
Locomotive No. 1 Talyllyn arriving at Nant Gwernol The is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in Wales running for 7.25 miles (11.67 km) from Tywyn on the Mid Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow-gauge railway in Britain authorised by act of Parliament to carry ...
" Drive " is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984). It was released on July 23, 1984, as the album's third single. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr [4] and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange with the band. [5] Upon its release, "Drive" became the Cars' highest-charting single in most territories. In the ...
Orr left Israel with his wife and daughter in 1964. After arriving in London, Aki began reading Cosmology at King's College alongside Roger Penrose & Stephen Hawking. [citation needed] He co-founded and was on the editorial board of ISRACA (Israeli Revolutionary Action Committee Abroad), an anti-Zionist publication "devoted to a critique of the ideological, cultural and psychological aspects ...
Deborah Jane Orr (23 September 1962 – 19 October 2019) [1][2] was a British journalist who worked for The Guardian, The Independent and other publications. [3]