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With a new album and an impending induction in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bob Seger will participate in a rare radio interview and on-line web chat hosted by RYL Friend Pat St. John. This historic program will be broadcast live from Detroit's WDTW-FM on February 2 at 9:30PM Eastern Time, with Pat flying in from New York to host.
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With a career spanning almost 40 years and nearly 50 million records sold, Grammy winner Bob Seger is known for his extraordinary depth of songs that capture both the hope and the heartbreak implicit in the American Dream. Fans have kept Bob Seger’s Greatest Hits album on the charts since its 1994 release (it was #8 on Billboard’s Pop Catalog chart for the week of May 7th – its 550th consecutive week on the charts). Now Capitol Records is responding to requests from the Detroit rocker’s online fan community for reissues of Seger’s more obscure works by releasing a newly remastered version of his 1972 release, Smokin’ O.P.’s, on June 7th.
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Seger followed this up strongly with 1978's Stranger in Town. The first single, "Still the Same", emphasized Seger's talent for mid-tempo numbers that revealed a sense of purpose, and made the Top 5 on the pop singles chart. "Hollywood Nights" was an up-tempo rocker Top 15 hit, while "We've Got Tonight" was a slow ballad that not only was a Top 15 hit on its own, but would become an adult contemporary mainstay in years to come for both Seger and other artists. The final single, 1979's "Old Time Rock & Roll", was the least successful single from the album, reaching only the Top 30, but achieved substantial AOR airplay. Moreover, it would later became one of Seger's most recognizable songs following its memorable Tom Cruise-dancing-in-his-underwear use in the 1983 film Risky Business. Album tracks from Stranger in Town were equally strong, with "Feel Like a Number" being especially memorable for its raging powerless fury.
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Bob Seger's first album in more than a decade excels at stout, lucidly sung rock-soul-blues-gospel that can, in uninspired hands, sound like reheated takeout food. The killer moment comes during the title track, a barreling piece of songwriting with spidery Duane Eddy-style guitar.
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Seger followed this up strongly with 1978's Stranger in Town. The first single, "Still the Same", emphasized Seger's talent for mid-tempo numbers that revealed a sense of purpose, and made the Top 5 on the pop singles chart. "Hollywood Nights" was an up-tempo rocker Top 15 hit, while "We've Got Tonight" was a slow us-against-the-world ballad that not only was a Top 15 hit on its own, but would become an adult contemporary mainstay in years to come for both Seger and other artists. The final single, 1979's "Old Time Rock & Roll", was the least successful single from the album, reaching only the
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Seger's first new album in 11 years, titled Face the Promise, was released on September 12, 2006. In its first 45 days, the album sold more than 400,000 copies, according to Soundscan. The album has sold over 1 million copies to date and stayed on the Billboard chart for months. His supporting tour has ... been eagerly anticipated, with many shows selling out within minutes. Showing that Seger's legendary appeal in Michigan had not diminished, all 15,000 tickets available for his first show at Grand Rapids' Van Andel Arena sold out in under five minutes; three additional shows were subsequently added, each of which also sold out.[4]
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