RIC OCASEK WORMS ON A STRING
The office is dark and silent. Here, in one of the rooms where Elliot Roberts, creme de la creme of rock star managers, and his associates make deals for the elite of American rockers—legends like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, as well as younger blood like Devo and the Cars—all is elegant, reserved, formal.
RIC OCASEK WORMS ON A STRING
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The office is dark and silent. Here, in one of the rooms where Elliot Roberts, creme de la creme of rock star managers, and his associates make deals for the elite of American rockers—legends like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, as well as younger blood like Devo and the Cars—all is elegant, reserved, formal. The tawdry glitter of the Sunset Strip may be just down a few flights of stairs and out a door, but here all is plush chocolate brown rugs, soft velvet couches, high backed VictOrian-style chairs' and medieval church pews.
The faint glow of a single light bulb in an antique chandelier barely illuminated the gaunt features of Ric Ocasek, leader of America’s most popular modern rock band, the Cars.
Ric is not humming “Just What I Needed.” He is not humming at all. He is hardly moving as he sits in one of the Victorian-style chairs, his' entire body so elongated one wonders if it .has been stretched for several months on a rack in a torture chamber hidden in fhe bowels of this building.