Ric Ocasek RIP

He was an old--older than Pete Townshend--and 34 when the first Cars album came out.  Punk cleared the way for "New Wave" whatever that was--and it was mostly a space created to be filled by people like Ric Ocasek who couldn't pull off punk music stylings but were still "new" compared to the same old interminably tedious album rock inanity of Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin and that wretched shit.  Hey, it was a living.