Bob Seger

Bob Seger is an American rock singer-songwriter whose work with the Silver Bullet Band — and a string of recordings made in Muscle Shoals — produced some of the most-played American heartland-rock songs of the 1970s and 1980s. He was born Robert Clark Seger on May 6, 1945, in Lincoln Park, Michigan, and grew up in Ann Arbor. He began performing in Detroit-area bands in the early 1960s, including the Decibels, the Town Criers, and Doug Brown & the Omens.

He signed with Capitol Records in 1968 and released a series of regional hit singles — including "Heavy Music" and "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" — that did well in Michigan and Ohio but failed to break nationally.

He formed the Silver Bullet Band in 1973. The 1976 album Live Bullet, recorded over two nights at Cobo Hall in Detroit, sold over five million copies in the United States. His studio breakthrough came later that year with Night Moves, whose title track reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The follow-ups Stranger in Town (1978) and Against the Wind (1980) produced "Old Time Rock and Roll," "Hollywood Nights," and the title track of Against the Wind, which reached number one on the Billboard 200 in 1980.

His song "Like a Rock" was licensed by Chevrolet for its truck advertising from 1991 through 2004, becoming one of the most-played pieces of music in American television advertising of the period. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. He toured into 2019 and announced his retirement from the road that November after the Roll Me Away farewell tour.

His given name Bob is a rhyming short form of Robert, from the Germanic Hrodebert meaning "bright fame," combining hrod ("fame") with beraht ("bright"). The pet form Bob developed in medieval England and remains one of the most familiar English nicknames.