OverviewAI-generated
Bob Seger is an American male singer-songwriter whose career began in 1961. He is associated with genres including classic rock, heartland rock, rock and roll, and soft rock. His musical style is often categorized under classic pop and rock. Seger has been recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
His work has been referenced by 1,058 other encyclopedia articles. On Last.fm, he has 1,220,974 listeners and 15,109,624 plays, with tags including classic rock, rock, singer-songwriter, 80s, and soft rock. He also has 92,097 social media followers. Records indicate he has five works according to Crossref and seven works according to Europeana Sparql.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1945-05-06
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,220,974
- Total plays
- 15,109,624
Tags
Robert Clark Seger (/ˈsiːɡər/, born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. 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 <a href="https://www.l
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,266x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,176x
- The Complete Genome Sequence of
<i>Escherichia coli</i>
K-12
· 1997 · cited 5,922x
- <i>Stan</i>
: A Probabilistic Programming Language
· 2017 · cited 5,840x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Cause I was born lonely down by the riversideLearned to spin fortune wheels, and throw diceAnd I was just thirteen when I had to leave homeKnew I couldn't stick around, I had to roamAin't good looking, but you know I ain't shyAin't afraid to look it girl, hear me outSo if you need some lovin, and you need it right awayTake a little time out, and maybe I'll stay.”
- “All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.”
- “Cruisin on the grey snakes till my dyin dayCheckin all the hen houses out along the wayWastin time and drinkin wineLife is short and I ain't lyinLivin all I can through every day.”
- “On a long, lonesome highway east of OmahaYou can listen to the engine moanin' out its one-note song.You can think about the woman or the girl you knew the night before.But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do,When you're ridin' sixteen hours and there's nothin' much to do.And you don't feel much like ridin', you just wish the trip was through.”
- “So here I am.On the road again.There I am,Up on the stage.And here I go,Playin' the star again.There I go,Turn the page.”
- “Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Robert Clark Seger , ( 1945-05-06 ) May 6, 1945 (age 81) , Detroit, Michigan , U.S.
- Genres
- Rock heartland rock roots rock
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter musician
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar keyboards
- Years active
- 1961–2019 (One-off: 2023)
- Labels
- Hideout Cameo Capitol Palladium Reprise
- Member of
- The Silver Bullet Band
- Website
- www .bobseger .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Bob Seger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~28 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Robert Clark Seger (/ˈsiːɡər/ SEE-gər; born May 6, 1945) is an American former 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 of the same name) 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 in 1975 at Cobo Hall. 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 known for his raspy, powerful voice, Seger is one of the best-known artists of the heartland rock genre, with his songs often concerning love, women, and blue-collar themes. Among his many hits are "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. His recording of "Old Time Rock and Roll" was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001, and he co-wrote the Eagles' number-one hit "Heartache Tonight".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bob Seger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.