FILE PHOTO: Producer Ric Ocasek arrives at the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute honoring Bob Dylan in Los Angeles, California February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
(Reuters) – Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the 1980s hook-heavy hitmakers The Cars, has died at the age of 75, New York media reported on Sunday.
Ocasek’s death was reported by NBC 4 New York and the New York Post. Reuters could not immediately confirm those reports.
A New York Police spokesman said that a 75-year-old male was found unresponsive at a townhouse on 19th street in the city at approximately 4 p.m. on Sunday and pronounced dead at the scene.
The spokesman declined to say if the deceased was identified as Ocasek.
Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; editing by Darren Schuettler
