Gunther Schuller
American composer and conductor (1925-2015)
Bob Seger is a legendary American singer, songwriter, and musician who is known for his powerful, raspy voice and classic rock anthems. With a career spanning six decades, he has sold over 75 million records worldwide and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. His farewell tour took place in 2018 and 2019.
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About the Bob Seger
Robert Clark Segeris a retired American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded with the groups Bob Seger and the Last Heard and the Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Manin 1969. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the ‘System’ from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet (1976), recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.
A roots rock musician with a classic raspy, powerful voice, Seger is known for his songs concerning love, women, and blue-collar themes, and is one of the best-known artists of the heartland rock genre. He has recorded many hits, including “Night Moves”, “Turn the Page”, “Mainstreet”, “Still the Same”, “Hollywood Nights”, “Against the Wind”, “You’ll Accomp’ny Me”, “Shame on the Moon”, “Roll Me Away”, “Like a Rock”, and “Shakedown”, the last of which was written for the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He also co-wrote the Eagles’ number-one hit “Heartache Tonight”, and his recording of “Old Time Rock and Roll” was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001.
With a career spanning six decades, Seger has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time. Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012. Seger was named Billboard’s 2015 Legend of Live honoree at the 12th annual Billboard Touring Conference & Awards, held November 18-19 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. His farewell tour took place in 2018 and 2019.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bob Seger is a retired American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his raspy, powerful voice and songs about love, women, and blue-collar themes.
Bob Seger was born on May 6, 1945.
In the 1960s, Bob Seger performed and recorded with the groups Bob Seger and the Last Heard and the Bob Seger System.
Bob Seger achieved a national breakout with the studio album ‘Night Moves’ in 1976.
Some of Bob Seger’s most well-known songs include ‘Night Moves’, ‘Turn the Page’, ‘Mainstreet’, ‘Still the Same’, and ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’.
With a career spanning six decades, Bob Seger has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time.
Bob Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
18 Quotes by Bob Seger
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I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you’re not really needed by your family, but you’re there. And my kids like to know I’m there.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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We’ve got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we’ve got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It’s just a huge chunk of time out of life.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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You can’t get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I’d want the best people and the best stuff.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
- 11.
I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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I never say never, because I don’t want to be one of those guys.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
- 14.
I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
- 15.
I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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My management tells me, Don’t be optimistic, because it’s the young people’s world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you’re a classic rocker. I don’t know if you’re gonna get the play.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
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I’m really glad I didn’t have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can’t do that anymore.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter
- 18.
I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
Bob SegerAmerican singer-songwriter