{"id":80222,"date":"2025-10-14T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:18:08","slug":"the-rock-roll-hall-of-famers-the-cars-at-the-center-of-new-book-exploring-the-bands-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80222\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Famers The Cars at the center of new book exploring the band&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Starting in 1978, the Boston-based band The Cars had a series of hit songs and videos before breaking up 10 years later. Now, musician and author <a href=\"https:\/\/billjanovitz.com\/blog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Janovitz<\/a> tells their story in the new book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cars-Let-Stories-Be-Told\/dp\/0306835061\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Cars: Let the Stories be Told<\/a>&#8221; and speaks with host Robin Young about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Book excerpt: &#8216;The Cars: Let the Stories be Told&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By Bill Janovitz<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Excerpted from &#8220;The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told.&#8221; Copyright 2025 by William Janovitz. Reprinted with permission of Da Capo, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment airs on October 14, 2025. Audio will be available after the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting in 1978, the Boston-based band The Cars had a series of hit songs and videos before breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-80222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}