Greg Hawkes’ keyboards drove the sound of The Cars, the Boston quintet who were responsible for some of the most artful and popular mainstream music of the late ’70s and early ’80s.

Greg Hawkes has gone down the rabbit hole. Over the past few years, Hawkes — best known as the keyboardist in The Cars, the Boston new wave band that exploded in the late 1970s and ‘80s ...

The Cars in Tokyo in 1984 (from left): Elliot Easton, Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Ric Ocasek ... what 10cc’s I’m Not In Love was to the ’70s, a beautiful ballad filled with atmospheric ...

Greg Hawkes with Eddie Japan Performing the Music ... Pioneering and pushing the limits of technology and sequencing in the late ’70s and through the ’80s, Hawkes cemented the synthesizer ...

When musician Greg Hawkes’ wife, Elaine, gave him a ukulele for Valentine’s Day eight years ago, it was the beginning of something that might be called destiny. Hawkes is now a virtuoso on the ...

Greg Hawkes saw the Beatles play the Baltimore Civic Center on Sept. 13, 1964. He was 11. That night something joyous exploded in his head. Already taking piano and clarinet lessons, he began to ...

L–R: Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, David Robinson ... moving to Boston in the early ’70s where he began working as a professional musician. The Cars formed in 1976 and released its self-titled ...

On their official Facebook page, the band posted a photograph of the surviving members — singer Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, drummer David Robinson and guitarist Elliot Easton ...