Bob Seger
Robert Clark Seger, better known as Bob Seger (b. May 6, 1945) is a popular American rock musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. Seger started as a locally popular Detroit-area artist and performed and recorded under the name "Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System" during the 1960s. Seger then relocated to Detroit and formed "The Silver Bullet Band" in 1973. He has cowritten and performed many hits. He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Seger has had a career spanning five decades and still currently performs.[1]
Early Life
Seger was born in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 6, 1945. Seger and his family moved to Ann Arbor when Seger was six years old. Seger's father was a musician and Ford plant worker. Seger's father abandoned the family and moved to California in 1955. Seger graduated from high school in Ann Arbor in 1963. He ran track and field. Seger said his early musical influences were Little Richard, James Brown, and Elvis Presley.
Early Career
Seger started out in a three-piece band called The Decibels with two classmates from his Ann Arbor high school. They recorded "The Lonely One" which was Seger's first original song and it was aired on an Ann Arbor radio station.
Discography[2]
- Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (1969)
- Noah (1969)
- Mongrel (1970)
- Brand New Morning (1971)
- Smokin' O.P.'s (1972)
- Back in '72 (1973)
- Seven (1974)
- Beautiful Loser (1975)
- Night Moves (1976)
- Live Bullet (1976)
- Stranger in Town (1978)
- Against the Wind (1980)
- Nine Tonight (1981)
- The Distance (1982)
- Like a Rock (1986)
- The Fire Inside (1991)
- Greatest Hits (1994)
- It's a Mystery (1995)
- Greatest Hits 2 (2003)
- Face the Promise (2006)
- Early Seger Vol. 1 (2009)