Blitzkrieg Pop

Bottom/ Candy-O (Elektra, 1979) is the second studio album by American rock band The Cars. The cover was painted by famed Playboy artist Alberto Vargas based on a dance step called the "rose petal" where the woman's hand was stretched demurely across the forehead and eyes like a petal. The Cars emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. They were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synth-oriented pop that was then becoming popular and which would flower in the early 1980s. Major hits include "Just What I Needed", "Good Times Roll", "Shake It Up", "You Might Think" and "Magic". Singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek was the sole lyricist and main songwriter for the band. Their most successful single, "Drive", gained particular notability when it was used in a video of the Ethiopian famine, introduced by David Bowie at the 1985 Live Aid concert at
Wembley Stadium in London.