The Cars reached their commercial peak with their 1984 album Heartbeat City, then did a victory lap with a well-regarded performance at Live Aid a year later. By 1988, they were kaput, a stunning ...

The Cars found a simpatico producer in Mutt Lange for their 1984 hit album Heartbeat City. Lange accentuated the songs’ hooks and brought ever-so-subtle pop sweetening to leaven some of the ...

And they weren’t exactly in love with the album cover, featuring a model smiling behind the wheel of a car. Robinson’s original idea for the cover wound up as the inner sleeve. Robinson ...