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Peter Aaron is the author of If You Like the Ramones and The Band FAQ; the coauthor of Richie Ramone's autobiography, I Know Better Now; the arts editor for Chronogram magazine; the front man of influential New York band the Chrome Cranks; and a member of the Stabbing Jabs and other musical projects. In the 1980s, he promoted early concerts by Nirvana, the Flaming Lips, and others. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, the Boston Herald, the Kingston Daily Freeman, and other publications, and online at AllMusic and All About Jazz. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

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The sound of new wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that era than Ric Ocasek, frontman and primary songwriter for the Cars.

The band charted thirteen Top 40 singles in the U.S. from 1978 to 1987, the music video for their song "You Might Think" won MTV's first-ever Video of the Year award, and their biggest hit, "Drive," became a Top 10 hit across the globe. They would ultimately be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Following the band's breakup in 1988, Ocasek continued to have a lively professional as well as personal life-dating supermodels, publishing poetry, and appearing in movies. He enjoyed enormous success as a producer, working with such bands as Weezer, No Doubt, Guided by Voices, and the Bad Brains.

Moving in Stereo: The Life of Ric Ocasek, the Driving Force of the Cars serves as an in-depth guide to Ocasek's life and catalog as a musician. Drawing on interviews, personal reminiscences, and the the journalistic coverage he so reliably inspired, it gives a memorable portrait of one of the most essential voices in pop music during the MTV era and beyond.

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Table of Contents
1 - That'll Be the Day
2 - The Times They Are A-Changin'
3 - I'm Waiting for the Man
4 - You Came into My Life
5 - Carry On
6 - Roadrunner
7 - Along the Way
8 - With You With Me
9 - We've All Been Through
10 - Remake/Remodel
11 - Beantown, Don't Let Me Down
12 - Start It All Again
13 - You're Always Brighter
14 - At the Rat
15 - Crazy Rock and Roll
16 - Better Be Good
17 - City Lights
18 - Just What I Needed
19 - I'm on Fire
20 - Radioactivity
21 - Beginning to See the Light
22 - Rocket U.S.A.
23 - I Want to Be a Machine
24 - Don't Cha Stop
25 - Cool as Ice
26 - Getting Through
27 - Modern World
28 - Something to Grab For
29 - Hello Again
30 - You Are the Girl
31 - Breakaway
32 - Touch Down Easy
33 - Only in Dreams
34 - The Next Right Moment
35 - Slipaway
36 - Take Another Look
37 - Come Back
38 - Since You're Gone
Acknowledgements