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 ...

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 ...

Cars guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboard player Greg Hawkes will perform with Todd Rundgren on vocals, Kasim Sulton on bass and Prairie Prince on drums. They will play selections from the band's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eddie Japan is Boston-based, but fronted by Northampton resident David Santos. The group is described as combining "1960s baroque pop and mod influences with the less restrained tendencies of '80s ...

Singer Ric Ocasek, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson have recorded a number of new songs for the record. Veteran engineer Paul Orofino, who is working on ...