Double Life (song)

"Double Life"
Single by The Cars from the album Candy-O
Released	1979
Genre	New Wave Soft rock Rock
Length	4:14 (Candy-O) 4:26 (The Cars Anthology)
Label	Elektra
Writer	Ric Ocasek
Producer	Roy Thomas Baker

"Double Life" is a single by the American rock band The Cars from their second album Candy-O. The song consists of a beginning verse of Ric Ocasek singing as lead vocals, later followed by all of the band members taking part in a backing vocal verse with Ocasek, who is still singing as lead during the whole band's verse as backing vocals at the same time. Then it leads into a guitar solo with the vocal verse following the same pattern as the beginning verse throughout the song.^{[citation needed]}

Allmusic reviewer Greg Prato states the song "embraces modern pop",^[1], but he probably was just referring to the songs chart position because if a song charts in the top 40's, then it is sometimes called pop. Just like most of The Cars hits, it received heavy airplay on classic rock radio stations..^{[citation needed]}

Appearances

"Double Life" appears on the compilation, Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, and is around 12 seconds longer than the Candy-O version.^[2]

References

1. ^ Prato, Greg. Candy-O review. Allmusic.com.
2. ^ "Double Life" on Allmusic.com.