Bob Seger SHOF 2012 Inductee
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Bob Seger

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Bob Seger is universally acknowledged by fans and musicians as one of the defining voices of American music. His vivid portraits of working class lives convey the hope and heartbreak implicit in the American dream. Bob Seger is an American rock and roll icon who has contributed a legacy of indelible work to the recording industry and American culture. 

Observed through the eyes of the outsider and the everyman, the reveler and the romantic, the songs of Bob Seger exemplify the classic in classic rock: “Against The Wind,“ “Turn The Page,” “Night Moves,”, “Hollywood Nights”, “Rock And Roll Never Forgets,” “Katmandu,” “Mainstreet,” “Still The Same”, “We’ve Got Tonight,” “The Fire Down Below,” “Like A Rock, "Beautiful Loser,” to name just a few. A wide variety of artists from around the world have recorded Seger’s songs including Metallica, Kid Rock, Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton, Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Rod Stewart, Cher, Martina McBride, Johnny Hallyday, Ronan Keating, Lulu, The Pointer Sisters, Thin Lizzy, Waylon Jennings, Dottie West, Brooks & Dunn, Barry Manilow, Rita Coolidge, Amii Stewart, Patti Austin, Conway Twitty, Elkie Brooks, Shirley Bassey, Keb’ Mo’ and many more. 

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band’s live performances have led to record sales in excess of 51 million including 12 platinum and seven multi-platinum RIAA-certified album sales awards. Seger holds the distinction for the #1 Catalog Album of the Decade (2000-2010) for his Greatest Hits, which has sold more than nine million copies in the U.S. to date, posting an unbroken 17-year streak on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums and Catalog Albums charts. He is a GRAMMY winner (“Against The Wind” Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo”) and a 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

 

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2012

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