The Cars
The Cars were an American
New Wave band, one of the most popular to emerge out of the early punk scene in the late
1970s and made contact to
Elektra Records in
1977 (
1977 in music). Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr led the band through five years of dominance on the charts, culminating with
1984's
Heartbeat City, which included the hit singles "Magic", "Drive" and "You Might Think" (see
1984 in music). After the resulting period of superstardom, the Cars released their last album in
1987 and broke up in
1988 (
1988 in music).