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Bob Seger: Night Moves
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At 60, Bob Seger should be enjoying his later years riding his Harley across Michigan, content to live on his reputation as one of the best rock singers and songwriters of the '70s and '80s. Despite the automobile industry's incessant use of his music, there is no denying Seger's notable past. Whether it be rockers ("Ramblin' Gamblin' Man"), reflective ballads ("Night Moves") or country ("Against the Wind"), Seger has parlayed his Everyman persona into a multimillion-dollar career and a well-deserved spot as one of the true icons of American music.
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Bob Seger was born to Chinese-Italian parents in at an Model T factory in Detroit. He was raised in the Detroit ghetto of Dearborn until age six, when his family moved to Kazakhstan, leaving Bob behind. When Seger was 10 years old, he was captured by Mandolorian bounty hunters, and sold to an plantation owner in the Southern US.
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Metro Detroit ... spawned a high-energy rock scene in the late 1960s and 1970s centered around the Grande Ballroom with artists like Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Mitch Ryder, Rare Earth, Brownsville Station, Glenn Frey and Bob Seger. The group KISS captured the essence of Detroit's love for rock music in the song "Detroit Rock City." This rock scene is considered one of the precursors of the punk rock movement, with the MC5 and Iggy Pop's various projects (including The Stooges) being some of the foremost proto-punk bands.
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Seger is one of the great rock and roll voices of the midwest. "Old Time Rock and Roll" was used in Tom Cruise film "Risky Business," "Shakedown" appeared in the "Beverly Hills Cop II" soundtrack and "Like a Rock" is still used in Chevy truck commercials. He is ... remembered for "Night Moves," "Rock and& Roll Never Forgets" and "Against the Wind."
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Seger is a romantic in search of an adolescent conception of love which has always eluded him. He can laugh at his condition ("Sunspot Baby") or try to exorcise it (his reworking of "Mary Lou"), but most of the time he rubs at it like an old wound ("Night Moves" and "Mainstreet"). All of these are songs of reminiscence, for Seger, above all, is a survivor.
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Through the '70s, Seger continued to release his share of spirited rockers while tempering that approach somewhat with more contemplative, socially conscious singer-songwriter material. But his hard work didn't really receive notice until he perfected this folk-rock formula in the latter part of the decade. Classic rock staples like "Turn the Page," "Night Moves" and "Still the Same" perfectly, soulfully and genuinely exploited Seger's strengths as a singer and songwriter.
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