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Encyclopedia Of Detroit
Singer and songwriter Bob Seger is the voice of the Midwestern everyman, with songs imbued with the spirit of the assembly line and the tribulations of life. Born on May 6, 1945 in Detroit and raised in Ann Arbor, Seger's interest in music was inspired by his father, who started his son’s musical trajectory by teaching him to play the ukulele. Soaking up the sounds of Memphis soul, Chicago blues and, later, Merseybeat pop on the radio, he was the front man with bands The Decibels and The Town Criers in high school, then Doug Brown & The Omens, with whom he first recorded around 1965.
After meeting Edward “Punch” Andrews, who would become his lifetime manager, Seger began writing songs for other groups before going solo in 1966 with the local hit "East Side Story." Forming his own band, Bob Seger and The Last Heard, he signed with Capitol Records, who changed the band name to The Bob Seger System. Their second single, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" became Seger’s first national hit, charting number 17 on the Billboard Top 20 in 1968. Seger made three albums w
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--Doug Podell, WLLZ 106.7 FM and iHeart radio interview with Edward Sarkis Balian, author of Turn the Page, The Bob Seger Story:
“This is a very honest and accurate book about Bob Seger…it is really well done, not only documented properly, but the photographs are phenomenal…I really appreciate the hard work that was put into this book…this is the first and only complete Bob Seger biography…if you know Bob Seger enough, you know why it’s the first one…Seger’s got five different lives and this book covers ‘em all…the author did his homework, there’s no question about it…”
--Review by Kim Maki, Editor, Detroit Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine:
5 STARS *****
This is a gorgeous book. Fabulous in quality and fantastic photos documenting Bob's life. Tom Weschler contributes a lot of his famous rock photos too! A feel-good book for all of the classic rock fans! 5 stars! *****
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Bob Seger
American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Musical artist
Robert Clark Seger (SEE-gər; born May 6, 1945) is an American retired 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' Man (which contained his first national hit "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man") in 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
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