The Cars
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The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes (keyboards), and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader.
The Cars, c. 1980 (l-r) Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton, David Robinson, Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr.
The Cars in a publicity shot, circa 1984
Benjamin Orr (pictured in 1978) died of pancreatic cancer in October 2000. Greg Hawkes played bass on Move Like This, while Weezer's Scott Shriner played bass with the band at its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Image: Elliot easton performs with the new cars 2006
WWBX
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WWBX is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts. The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is on the upper FM mast of the Prudential Tower.
WBMX/WWBX has been based out of this studio building in Brighton, shared with CBS' other Boston FM stations (and built for former sister station WSBK in an antebellum style favored by that stations' then-owner, Storer Broadcasting) since 2009. The building also housed WBCN's studios starting in 2005.