Bob Seger

Robert Clark "Bob" Seger ( born May 6, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American rock musician of the 1970s and 1980s, which has remained an influential person in the rock scene today.

Childhood

The son of a factory worker who made ​​music itself and was a member of a band, Seger arrived early with the instruments of his father (clarinet, guitar and piano ) in contact. When Bob was ten years old, his father separated from his mother, and the standard of living of the family walked quickly from home cooking to poor. The family lived together in a studio.

Musical career

Seger was already fifteen years a member of a band, The Decibels, and wrote at the age of sixteen his first song: The Lonely One.

By 1968 he had five top - ten singles on Detroit's music market and the title song of the album Ramblin ' Gamblin ' Man reached national space 17 of the singles chart. In Detroit he sold at that time already more records than the Beatles and went to three nights a week with his band in bars and clubs.

After 1969 one years paused, with the intention to get his college degree at an end, Bob Seger reached in 1976 with his albums Live Bullet and Night Moves enormous success at the national level. From this time he published his albums up to It's A Mystery ( 1995) under the name Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet band. After these two albums have been certified platinum, Seger continued his success in the next twenty years, with seven top ten platinum albums continued.

Segers 's greatest hits ( for example, Fire Lake, Against the Wind, You'll Accomp'ny Me) were ballads. He himself said that you often can give greater expression with ballads than by Rock: "Writing rock is too limiting. I have ten times as much freedom writing ballads. "

With the song Shakedown, which belonged to the soundtrack of Beverly Hills Cop II, he achieved another very successful chart hit.

Today, Bob Seger is on numerous platinum albums, nineteen Top 40 singles, sold almost one million concert tickets during his tour in 1996 and look back almost fifty million -selling music albums worldwide.

On 5 March 2004 Bob Seger was recorded with rock greats like Prince and Jackson Browne into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In the published 2005 album " Seventeen Days " by the band 3 Doors Down Bob Seger had a guest appearance in the song " Landing in London".

In September 2006, the album Face the Promise was published.

Due to the success of "Face the Promise" in the United States (Chart at No. 4 in the U.S.) and at the urging of his children Bob Seger decided to go on tour again. The tour went from December 2006 to March 2007 and was a triumphant success. With about 50 concerts reached Bob Seger 800,000 fans live, all tour dates were considered sold.

On 24 November 2009 the album " Early Seger Vol.1" was released on the 4 unreleased songs and a compilation of older titles are included, which were remastered and remixed.

Chart positions

Singles

In this table there are the songs that have established themselves in the charts of the three countries.

Albums