In two days following the news of Ric Ocasek's death, sales of The Cars' catalog of albums and songs surged by 2,662%, Billboard reports. The Cars’ combined albums and songs sold 27,000 copies on Sept. 16 and in the late hours of Sept. 15. In the two previous days, The Cars’ music and sold 1,000.

NME's Mark Beaumont made a selection of best covers of songs by Ric Ocasek's The Cars, to mark the passing of the new wave rock visionary. There are: soft rock standard 'Drive' covered by songwriter Matt Pond PA, new wave nugget 'My Best Friend's Girl' in a "gurning grunge" treatment by Nirvana, "a primal, drum-led […]