Cars Biographer Joe Milliken Author of Let's Go: Benjamin Orr and the Cars hosted by Joe Viglione 

I would like this book to be translated into Portuguese and that this interview be subtitled in several languages.

НА РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК !ПЕРЕВОД КНИГИ ТОЖЕ ХОЧЕТСЯ. СПАСИБО БОЛЬШОЕ ЗА ИНФОРМАЦИЮ.

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Can you say more (respectfully of course)?

Yes, it does get emotional at times. Very thankful ,and gratfeul to be on this book journey, telling Ben's story to the world. #LetsGo

Thanks so much!

He sure did! After his diagnosis and knowing he had only a few months to live, he said he will perform until they would have to scrape him off the stage and it almost happened exactly like that. His band mates would wheel him in a wheelchair to the stage. He had an oxgen tank on stage for air between songs (or maybe even between singing verses). His voice was very weak ( you can easily find videos of him performing in his final months, it's bittersweet to watch) But during his final stage performance - as was written about in his biography, he'd become too weak to do all his songs. While on stage, he said to his bandmates: "Don't do Drive" They all looked at each other and they knew that this was it. They got him on a flight home and just a few days later he passed. It's an amazing story about an amazing musician, singer and man who did what he loved the most, right to the very end.

@@gracewolf16 Thanks for the answer. Gotta say, that could not have been very enjoyable for the audience to watch.

Well, like I said, I imagine it was probably "bittersweet" for those in the audience. Both wonderful and heartbreaking simultaneously.@@rollo131

Thank you, Carla! #LetsGo

I am!

Sounds intriguing! Do tell, Jojo.

He was born in Lakewood which is on the outskirts of Cleveland. Most people who are born in these surrounding towns tend to tell people they are from Cleveland which Benjamin did also. My daughter lives in Lakewood but tells everyone she lives in Cleveland! Lol

Of course he knows where he lives in Boston where this guy is from if you are in the suburbs of the city you still consider it Boston Lakewood is a suburb of Cleveland kind of trolling

Come on Lakewood is a suburb of Cleveland.

This is why we have a thing called Chicagoland.

I guess the whole book is useless because of this? Who cares?

The book doesn’t tell the fan anything they already don’t know. That is unfortunate. Would love to know more about the things most fans don’t know.

@@chocloditelensman I read the book ,and I agree. You don’t get to learn anything about his childhood or his family life. I found it a confusing read, and left me with more questions than answers.