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Bob Seger was born at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and lived in the area until age 6 when his family moved to the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. When Seger was 10 years old, his father left the family and moved to California. Seger attended Tappan Middle School and Ann Arbor High School (now Pioneer High School) in Ann Arbor and graduated in 1963.
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Robert Clark Seger known by his fans as Bob Seger was born on May 5, 1945 in Dearborn, Michigan, technically in Detroit at the nearest hospital, Henry Ford. He along with his family lived in Dearborn until he turned 6 years of age when his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father was a musician and bandleader that left the family when Bob was only 10 to move to California seeking fame and fortune that never came.
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Bob Seger was born on May 6th, 1945, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father, who had been a big band leader, quit the music business to work in a local factory and eventually abandoned the family completely, leaving for California, in search of success that he never achieved. (He died in a fire in 1968). The family, left in near poverty, moved to a one-room apartment.
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Bob Seger was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1945, the son of a musician father who eventually settled into a job at a Ford auto plant. The younger Seger got into rock music early on, starting his first band as a teen and releasing a tough brand of rock and roll akin to contemporaries the MC5 and the Stooges in the late '60s. He first made his mark with 1969's "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" and ... began a flirtation with the pop charts that would deepen as he began to move away from hard rock.
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Seger began his musical career in 1961 in Detroit as a member of The Decibels, where he first met his future manager and record producer, Punch Andrews. Seger returned to Ann Arbor where he played with The Town Cryers and then Doug Brown and the Omens. With them, he released his first single in 1965 for the local Hideout Records label. In 1966 Seger sang on Doug Brown and the Omens' parody of Barry Sadler's song "Ballad of the Green Berets" which was re-titled "Ballad of the Yellow Beret" and mocked draft dodgers. Soon after its release Sadler and his record label threatened Brown and his band with a lawsuit and the recording was withdrawn from the market.
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Seger shown his interest in music in his early age. He began playing music in 1961 as the leader of the Detroit-based trio the Decibels; his future manager, Eddie "Punch" Andrews was ... a member of the band. Moving to Ann Arbor, he played with the Town Criers before he became the keyboardist and vocalist for Doug Brown & the Omens. The band released "The Ballad of the Yellow Beret," that was parody of the Sgt. Barry Sadler song "The Ballad of the Green Beret." However, It proved a set back for them when Sadler threatened a lawsuit against this song.Resultantly, The single was withdrawn shortly after its release.
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