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 Recorrds[?] 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 quietly retired in
1987 (
1987 in music).