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Flashback: Bob Seger Performs a Moving ‘Against the Wind’ in 1980

By Andy Greene

Andy Greene

Bob Seger turned 75 on Wednesday, but in his typical low-key style he didn’t commemorate the landmark birthday with a social-media post or a public declaration of any sort. He’s basically been living off the grid since the conclusion of his farewell tour on November 1st, 2019, which turned out to be excellent timing since COVID-19 was months away from forcing him (and everyone else) into an indefinite break from the road anyway.

Farewell tours are almost always little more than an elaborate ruse. They’re a means for acts that are seeing diminishing ticket sales (often thanks to a show that hasn’t changed much in decades) to triple their ticket prices and cajole ambivalent fans into shelling out one last time for fear they’ll never get another chance. Most of us know we’re being conned, but we go along with it because there’s always a tiny chance it truly is the last go-round.

Seger’s Roll Me Away: The Final Tour felt like a very different situation. He didn’t pull a Mötley Crüe and sign a “Cessation of Touring Agreement” or even grant any in-depth interviews talking about his decision to step off the road, but his advanced age and honest nature made it feel like the real deal. He sang his 1978 deep cut “The Famous Final Scene” at several of the shows and it felt like he meant every word of it.

It’s sad to think that he’ll likely never tour again because Seger truly is one of the great performers of the rock era. Check out this video of him performing “Against the Wind” at Landover, Maryland’s Capital Center on October 1st, 1980. The album was released earlier that year and he was in peak form.

Key members of the Silver Bullet Band like guitarist Drew Abbott left the fold since that tour and Seger’s voice did lose some of its range, but his live show was stellar right up to the very last night of the Roll Me Away tour. Let’s all hope he’s enjoying his retirement and having a nice quarantine. Maybe it’s finally giving him the time to remaster his early albums and get them back into print. He’s finally run out of excuses to keep them hidden away.

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Bob Seger's American Storm tour stop at Pine Knob (now the DTE Energy Music Theatre) in August, 1986. Photo by Ken Settle

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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band live at The Palace of Auburn Hills on 9-23-2017. Photo credit: Ken Settle

Bob Seger at The Rock 'n' Roll Farm bar in Wayne, Mich., 1974, when he was introducing songs from “Beautiful Loser.” Photo by Ken Settle

Bob Seger performs June 1974 at the Plymouth Cultural Center in Plymouth Mich. Photo by Ken Settle

Bob Seger on stage at Joe Louis Arena in February 1987, during his American Storm tour. Photo by Ken Settle

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band live at DTE Music Theatre on 9-9-2017. Photo credit: Ken Settle

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, May 23, 1978 at Cobo Arena in Detroit during the “Stranger In Town” tour. Photo by Ken Settle

Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band head out, as the song says, on the road again this week.

And he says it will be the last time.

Opening Wednesday, Nov. 21, in Grand Rapids, Travelin’ Man-The Final Tour has dates booked into May – mostly at this point make-ups for the Runaway Train Tour that was postponed last September in order for Seger to undergo spinal surgery. More dates, including some closer to home in the metro Detroit area, are expected to be added once the tour is up and running.

Seger, a Rock and Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, has been talking about coming off the road since the mid-’80s. This time, however, he apparently means it. Back in 2014 he said that, “I don’t know how much more there is to prove. I wouldn’t mind putting out one more record, one last swan song. … It’s been a great run. It’s amazing how much airplay we’ve gotten down through the years.

“I don’t want to overstay my welcome.”

But last December, after the release of his latest album, “I Knew You When,” as he was recuperating, Seger clearly felt there was unfinished business.

“It was going so good, the tour was,” he said. “They were playing so great, the band. Oh my God, I hated to stop. I feel like we’ve got to do at least do these 20 (postponed concerts) that are outstanding. We have to honor that. … So that’s the first thing we’ve got to do and we’ll probably add some more from there.”

Of course, Seger has played thousands – no exaggeration – of concerts over the years and staked his reputation as a live act, the reason Billboard magazine gave him one of its Legend of Live awards. If this truly is the last time, then, we thought it would be valuable to look at the key tours during his career – not everything, but the ones that were game-changers and have become legendary.

Travelin’ Man … 1975-76

Seger and company were well seasoned by thousands of concerts before this trek. But the arrival of what was then considered his best album, “Beautiful Loser,” put a bit more propulsion behind the jet – which included the recording of the “Live Bullet” album Sept. 4-5, 1975 at Cobo Arena in Detroit and a summer 1976 tour opening for Kiss, whose Paul Stanley said the Silver Bullets “delivered the goods. … That always made us work harder.” The tour also included a date with a pre-“Comes Alive” Peter Frampton at MSU Auditorium in East Lansing, while a headlining show on June 26, 1976, at the Pontiac Silverdome was a special segue into what lay ahead.

Old Time Rock and Roll … 1976-78

Seger and the Silver Bullets just kept rolling, from “Beautiful Loser” throughout his two breakthrough albums, 1976’s “Night Moves” and “Stranger in Town” two years later. Coming off the Kiss tour, the group maintained mostly headline dates – though it did open a few shows for Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult and Foghat – riding the success of “Night Moves.” Highlights included eight shows at Pine Knob (now DTE Energy Music Theatre, near Clarkston) during the summer of 1977 – a record that stood for nearly 40 years – and fall 1977 dates in the U.K., Germany and France. Seger’s most concentrated continuous touring period wrapped on New Year’s Eve, 1978, in St. Louis.

His Strut … 1980

Seger supported “Against the Wind,” his sole No. 1 and last multiplatinum album – as well as his only Grammy Award winner (Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best Recording Package) – with eight solid months of touring that yielded his second live album, “Nine Tonight.” This trek was the last for guitarist Drew Abbott and drummer David Teegarden as Silver Bullet Band members and included six nights at Cobo Arena and three at Pine Knob. Things wrapped up in November with two dates at London’s Wembley Arena, Seger’s last performing trip across the pond.

Storming America … 1986-87

After what felt like a truncated tour during 1983, Seger pushed his “Like A Rock” album with another eight-month epic road trip that played to nearly 1.5 million fans around North America. It also featured an expanded edition of the Silver Bullet Band bolstered by all-stars such as Bill Payne and Fred Tackett of Little Feat, future Fleetwood Mac fill-in Rick Vito and multi-instrumentalist Crystal Taliefero from John Mellencamp’s band. The shows included an unreleased song, “Yesterday Rules,” written for but not included in the soundtrack for the hit film “Back to the Future.” The storm subsided March 8, 1987, after seven shows at Joe Louis Arena, and it would be nine years before he hit the road again. Seger had already broached the possibility of retiring from the road, saying at the time that, “I’m committed to these guys who have been with me for a long time. I told them they’re gonna make a large amount of money on this tour and that I don’t want them counting on another one. I have that option.”

Locked and Loaded … 2006-07

Touring for only the second time in two decades, Seger was energized by a hot new album, “Face the Promise,” and also, he acknowledged, by a Detroit Pistons’ NBA championship that inspired the track “Simplicity.” The tour introduced some key new faces to the Silver Bullet lineup – multi-instrumentalist Jim “Moose” Brown, a Nashville session cat and writer who had attended Birmingham Groves High School during his teens, and the four-piece Motor City Horns section – who remain to this day. Longtime Silver Bullet keyboardist Craig Frost said at the time, “I’ve never seen him more happy on a tour in my entire experience with him. He’s genuinely having fun up there. You can see it.” Two returns to Cobo Arena, which “Live Bullet” devotees like to call “The House That Bob Built,” during March of 2007 put an exclamation point on the successful venture.

Rock and Roll Never Forgets … 2011

Seger was between albums when he set off on his two-leg Rock and Roll Never Forgets Tour in March 2011 – he actually suspended work on what became 2014’s “Ride Out” in order to take a Silver Bullet ride that year. He had released two compilations, “Early Seger, Vol. 1” in 2009 and “Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets” earlier in the year. That allowed him to loosen up the set list a bit, adding rarities such as “Good For Me,” “Gets Ya Pumpin'” and “Long Twin Silver Line,” returning Ike & Tina Turner’s “Nutbush City Limits” and Willie Mitchell’s “Come to Poppa” to the set and bringing out his Special Olympics-benefitting version of “Little Drummer Boy” for some seasonal shows. He even deviated from his usual opener, “Roll Me Away,” to kick off an Ypsilanti show with “Feel Like a Number.” The trek also brought Seger back into stadiums for a headlining appearance at the Orlando Calling festival, with Kid Rock on the bill. Bruce Springsteen hopped on stage for “Old Time Rock and Roll” on Dec. 1 at New York’s Madison Square Garden,” while Jane Fonda posted a tribute to Seger on her website after he spoke about how she inspired “Her Strut” during a show in Los Angeles.

* If you go: Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band’s tour kicks off Wednesday, Nov. 21, at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids. Visit bobseger.com for all the tour dates so far.

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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band have played the final show of their farewell tour. This is what the crowd in Philadelphia saw

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band have played the final show of their farewell tour, at the 20,000-capacity Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA. Support came from local band Ghost Hounds.

Seger  announced his final tour  in September 2018, after  returning to the road after back surgery, and after 63 arena shows this year – performing to more than one million fans – the curtain has finally fallen on the singer's live career. 

Songs performed at The Wells Fargo Centre were picked from throughout Seger's 50-year career , from 1969's Ramblin' Gamblin' Man through the hits that made his name in the 70s like Mainstreet, Roll Me Away, Like A Rock, We Got Tonight, Turn The Page and Hollywood Nights .

There was also room for two covers: Rodney Cowell's Shame on the Moon, which Seger originally performed on 1982's The Distance, and Bob Dylan's Forever Young, played in tribute to late Eagles' founder Glenn Frey, a close friend who grew up with Seger in Detroit. Full setlist below.

Seger's future plans are unclear, and while he has hinted that it's only the North American part of the tour that's over, he hasn't played outside the continent for nearly four decades. His last UK show was at Wembley Arena in November 1980. 

Bob Seger Philadelphia setlist

Simplicity Still the Same The Fire Down Below Mainstreet Old Time Rock & Roll The Fire Inside Shame on the Moon Roll Me Away Come to Poppa Her Strut Like a Rock You'll Accomp'ny Me We've Got Tonight Travelin' Man Beautiful Loser Sunspot Baby Turn the Page Forever Young Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

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Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band, J. Geils Band, Eddie Money, Def Leppard – Cleveland Stadium– July 19, 1980

36 years ago today in Northeast Ohio music history, Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band headlined the festival series, The World Series Of Rock at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Also on the bill were the J. Geils Band, Eddie Money and opening act Def Leppard. This was also the last World Series Of Rock concert that was held.

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IN CONCERT: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Live in Largo 1980

Posted By Bob Reno on 03/19/2020

Who doesn’t love Bob Seger?  And, although he was touring up until just recently, not as many people got to see him and The Silver Bullet Band back in the day. So, here we have video from an entire concert back in 1980, at the Capitol Center in Largo, Maryland. Is the video quality great? No. Is the sound quality great? Also, no. But you can FEEL the energy of Seger and the band in this nearly lost footage from 40 years ago. Watch and enjoy!

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BOB SEGER ANNOUNCES FINAL TOUR CELEBRATING FIVE DECADES OF ROCK N ROLL

NEW DATES GO ON SALE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

DETROIT, MI – After a career that has spanned more than 50 years, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band will hit the road for one last time on their final tour. More dates are being added to Seger’s previously announced dates, giving fans one more opportunity to see Seger and the band live. The Travelin’ Man tour kicks off on November 21 in Grand Rapids.  

Tickets for the new dates in Buffalo, Cleveland, Louisville, Fort Wayne, Peoria, Grand Rapids and rescheduled shows in Dallas and Houston will go on sale Friday, September 28.  Tickets for new dates in Toledo and Nashville will go on sale Saturday, September 29.

Additional shows will be announced in the coming weeks, including dates in Las Vegas, Fresno, San Diego, Vancouver, Florida and more.

Bob Seger fan club members will have special access to purchase tickets in advance of the scheduled on-sale dates. To become a Bullet Club member, visit BobSeger.com/bulletclub .

Tickets can be purchased at BobSeger.com .

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Bob Seger's Greatest Hits, Ranked: 15 Tracks Proving He's Still the King of Old Time Rock and Roll

W hen it comes to singer-songwriters who are admired by artists of every genre, young and old, count Bob Seger among the most popular. Jelly Roll - fresh from being crowned Best New Artist in both the country and pop categories at the 2024 iHeart Radio Music Awards on April 1 - celebrated with his wife, Bunnie Xo, by hitting a Tennessee bar and belting out one of Bob Seger's greatest hits, "Old Time Rock and Roll."

The red-hot Jelly Roll even recently told Billboard that Seger is one of his favorite artists, and he'd love to cover "Against the Wind" … but he might be too big a fan of the original.

"I've thought about it, but man, I just don't know that I could do anything for it," Jelly Roll shared. "Those songs that meant the most to me I'm petrified of.… I'm just petrified to even pretend to sing 'em."

Bob Seger performing (1980)

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Last fall, Seger was a surprise guest at the Country Music Hall of Fame inductions in Nashville. The Detroit legend, who duetted with inductee Patty Loveless on his 1996 song " The Answer's in the Question ," showed up to honor Loveless by doing a rendition of her "She Drew a Broken Heart."

As thrilled as she was for the unexpected honor, Vince Gill couldn't resist joking about his frustration with the situation. "I'm a little pissed off. I just found out I have to follow Bob Seger," Gill quipped.

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As fellow Michigan export Kid Rock put it when he inducted Seger into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, "The most underrated singer, songwriter, and performer has been Bob Seger. He is the beautiful loser who has sold 50 million records [and he's] paid more dues than all of the artists in the current Billboard Top 40 combined."

Seger, who at one point in his career had seven straight Top 10 platinum-selling albums in a row, "set the bar for all singers and songwriters from the Midwest," Kid added, noting, "Bob Seger is the voice of the working man and the living proof of the American dream."

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Though the man himself has (mostly) been retired since 2019, his music is timeless. This is proven by the fact that Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band's 1994 Greatest Hits reentered the Top Rock Albums charts just this month, while also moving up on the Top Rock & Alternative and Billboard 200 charts as well.

"You know, I've had a great life, oh my goodness," Seger once told the Detroit Free Press about his long career. "I loved what I did. Never worked a day in my life, really. The hard parts were in sleeping in hotels, having rotten food."

And it was all worth it for the music, which he never rushed in terms of creating. "The writing dictates that," Seger once told the San Diego Union-Tribune . "If I feel I have a good bunch of songs, I'll put them out. But I wait for the spirit to strike. I write all the time.… For me, the lyrics come out of the feeling of the music. Sometimes, I'll think of a great title [first], like ‘Night Moves.' I write by hand, and I don't commit it to computer for a long time."

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Once they're done, though, they're beloved by his fans forever - and audiences were never shy about letting Seger know which ones they wanted to hear in concert.

"I tried not to play ‘Turn the Page' for a while - and [that] lasted about three shows!" Seger shared with a laugh. "We had to put it back in. ‘Old Time Rock and Roll' is like that, too. We play it very well, but I'm very tired of it. [But audiences] just love it and sing along.…[and] it's their show."

There is, of course, no shortage of Bob Seger's greatest hits that fans will want to keep replaying. Just take a listen to some of the rock legend's best, below, and you'll understand why.

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"I was trying to get right down to the ‘nut', right down to the passion. I was trying to get to some truth," Seger told In the Studio With Redbeard about this title song from his 1991 album, which touches upon a one-night stand as well as larger, complicated issues about fidelity.

"We all walk that fine line between temptation and ethical moral choices, staying true to somebody or longing for something more. It's a constant dilemma," Seger shared.

14. "Rock And Roll Never Forgets" (1977)

"A song like ‘Rock and Roll Never Forgets' is just slammin'. When we play that song live people go nuts," Seger told Louder's Classic Rock. "It's a grateful song. I'm grateful to all the people I played for in those small clubs, on the top of cafeteria tables, in gymnasiums and in hockey rinks. Suddenly all those people came out and bought my records and said: ‘I remember him. I saw him at the high school or hockey rink.'"

13. "Wait for Me" (2006): Bob Seger's greatest hits

" I will answer the wind, I will leave with the tide. I'll be out on the road, every chance I can ride ," Seger sings on this late-career tune, which was released when he was in his early 60s. " And I'll fight for the right to go over that hill, if it'll only mean something to me. I will not be persuaded I won't be still ," the legend continues. "The contemplative ballad…is up there with his very best songs," Louder insists. "This is the sound of a man completely comfortable with who he's become."

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12. "Shakedown" (1987)

This Grammy-nominated song off of the soundtrack to 1987's Beverly Hills Cop II starring Eddie Murphy also earned a nod for Best Song at the Oscars. Seger stepped up to the mic on this one when friend Glenn Frey (who scored big with "The Heat Is On" in the film franchise's first installment) was sidelined with laryngitis. It became Seger's sole No. 1 hit.

11. "Mainstreet" (1977): Bob Seger's greatest hits

A female dancer that a young Seger would sometimes see in the window of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, club served as inspiration for this sentimental classic. "The club was very lively, and to a 12, 13-year-old, that was pretty cool," Seger told Classic Rock. "I would sit out there and watch through the window and listen to this great R&B. I'm looking and I'm listening and thinking this is what I wanna do with my life." The rest, they say, is history.

10. "Still The Same" (1978)

" There you stood; everybody watched you play. I just turned and walked away. I had nothing left to say. " Burn! It's a true talent to pen lyrics so biting and still sound so triumphantly cool delivering them. "People have asked me for years who it's about. It's an amalgamation of characters I met when I first went to Hollywood. All ‘Type A' personalities: overachieving, driven," Seger revealed in the liner notes to his 1994 greatest hits collection.

9. "We've Got Tonight" (1978): Bob Seger's greatest hits

Seger's shared that this song was inspired by a scene in The Sting in which Robert Redford's lonely character looks to a waitress at 2 a.m. for one night of, well, you know. "That just hit me real hard," Seger explained to the  Detroit Free Press . "The next day I wrote ‘We've Got Tonight,' this song about two people who say ‘I'm tired. It's late at night. I know you don't really dig me, and I don't really dig you, but this is all we've got, so let's do it.' The sexual revolution was still going strong then." Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton scored big with their 1983 remake of the song , which went to No. 1 on the country charts.

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8. "Katmandu" (1975)

Seger's road to success was a long one, and this tune touches on his leaner years. "It's an exasperated song. It's like: ‘I'm never gonna make it, I'm just gonna go to Katmandu,'" the singer-songwriter told Classic Rock. "In the song ‘Katmandu' I still had some of that defeatist mentality and you can hear it in there." While that might be true, it rocks and rolls among his best. Cash Box's review praises the track's Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and "classic Chuck Berry -style guitar, down-home rockin' piano and fine vocal stylizing."

7. "Beautiful Loser" (1975): Bob Seger's greatest hits

"[Sometimes] I'll just sit down and say, ‘I wanna write a song called this.' That's how ‘Beautiful Loser' happened," Seger told Music Connection. "I just loved the title, which I got from a book of poetry from Leonard Cohen called Beautiful Losers , with an ‘s,' and I thought it was a really cool title." The song, which took him about four passes to write, wasn't an instant winner when it was released on his same-titled 1975 studio album. Fans and critics really came around to it, though, when radio DJs played a concert version back-to-back with "Travelin' Man" , both off of his 1976 album ‘Live' Bullet .

6. "Old Time Rock and Roll" (1979)

If you haven't at some point danced around the house lip-synching to this in your underwear a la Tom Cruise in 1983's Risky Business , did you even live through the 80s? Three songwriters share credit for this tune (George Jackson, Thomas E. Jones III, and Chuck Crozier), but Seger has said he rewrote all of the verses without taking a co-writing credit for himself, calling it "the dumbest thing I ever did." Some have countered his claim, saying Jackson did the bulk of the writing, however. Either way, this is a song that audiences can't get enough of, even if he grew a bit weary of performing it. "I'm sure there are songs that Billy Joel and the Eagles are also tired of playing," Seger once shared.

5. "Hollywood Nights" (1978): Bob Seger's greatest hits

The songwriter was out driving in the Hollywood Hills when the lyrics for this song just "came out of nowhere," he told Rock Cellar. "So I turned right around and drove home and I'm singing this in my head thinkin', ‘Don't forget it, don't forget it! Don't turn on the radio!'," he added with a laugh, revealing he sang "it into my little cassette recorder" as soon as he got home. "It's high energy and it's gonna be fun and the girls are gonna sing it like crazy," he thought, referring to his longtime backup singers, Laura Creamer and Shaun Murphy , whom he enthusiastically thanked when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, calling them "wonderful singers…I'm a very fortunate guy to have those gals down through the years."

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4. "Like a Rock" (1986)

" I was 18, didn't have a care. Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare. But I was lean and solid everywhere. Like a rock. " This gem "was inspired partly by the end of a relationship I had that had lasted for 11 years," Seger told The New York Times . "You wonder where all that time went. But beyond that, it expresses my feeling that the best years of your life are in your late teens when you have no special commitments and no career. It's your last blast of fun before heading into the cruel world."

3. "Against the Wind" (1980): Bob Seger's greatest hits

Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band took home the Grammy in 1981 for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for this song. "I always say it's human nature that people are gonna love you sometimes and they're gonna use you sometimes. Knowing the difference between when people are using you and when people truly care about you, that's what ‘Against the Wind' is all about," Seger told Rolling Stone of the hit. "The people in that song have weathered the storm, and it's made them much better that they've been able to do it and maintain whatever relationship. To get through is a real victory."

2. "Turn the Page" (1973)

This fan-favorite off of 1972's Back in '72 album wasn't originally released as a single, but it was after it gained radio airplay after its inclusion on Seger's 1976 concert album ‘Live' Bullet.

The song tackles " the real weariness of the road and I tried to capture that. I think I captured it for truck drivers. I think I captured it for traveling businessmen. And I think I just captured it for people who have to travel a lot and just plain miss home or family or both," the artist told Rock Cellar, adding that he was a little surprised audiences rallied so strongly behind such an emotionally "down" tune.

"I never thought [it] would last as long as it has," he said of its popularity. "That's one of the songs we must play or people get very agitated. If we don't play that the fans are definitely disappointed."

1. "Night Moves" (1976): Bob Seger's greatest hits

"[This] was the easiest song in the world to write but the hardest song to finish. It took me six months to finish it," Seger has said of this tune, which American Graffiti helped to inspire, as did Bruce Springsteen 's "Jungleland," as it had a double bridge.

"I never thought of two bridges in one song. So I have two…in ‘Night Moves.' People at Capitol Records told me after they heard the song…that I had a ‘career record.' They said: ‘This is a song that you're gonna have to play for the rest of your life.'" They were right, as fans surely never seem to tire of it. Faithful Friends viewers will no doubt spot Matt LeBlanc as the male lead in its 1994 video, opposite Melrose Place 's Daphne Zuniga .

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Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Setlist at Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA

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• Feel Like a Number Play Video
• Trying to Live My Life Without You ( Otis Clay  cover) Play Video
• You'll Accomp'ny Me Play Video
• Still the Same Play Video
• Mainstreet Play Video
• Old Time Rock and Roll ( George Jackson  cover) Play Video
• Against the Wind Play Video
• Her Strut Play Video
• The Horizontal Bop Play Video
• Fire Lake Play Video
• Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight Play Video
• We've Got Tonight Play Video
• Turn the Page ( Bob Seger  song) Play Video
• The Fire Down Below Play Video
• Ramblin' Gamblin' Man ( The Bob Seger System  cover) Play Video
• Katmandu ( Bob Seger  song) Play Video
• Night Moves Play Video
• Hollywood Nights Play Video
• Rock and Roll Never Forgets Play Video
• Let It Rock ( Chuck Berry  cover) Play Video

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Songs on Albums

• Against the Wind
• Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
• The Horizontal Bop
• You'll Accomp'ny Me
• Katmandu by Bob Seger
• Let It Rock by Chuck Berry
• Old Time Rock and Roll by George Jackson
• Ramblin' Gamblin' Man by The Bob Seger System
• Trying to Live My Life Without You by Otis Clay
• Turn the Page by Bob Seger
• Night Moves
• Rock and Roll Never Forgets
• The Fire Down Below
• Feel Like a Number
• Hollywood Nights
• Still the Same
• We've Got Tonight

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