Bob Seger

His first two marriages ended in divorce. He also had a long term relationship with Jan Dinsdale from 1972 to 1983.

He is currently married to Nita and has two children with her.

Bob was born in Michigan to Stewart Seger, a medical technician and his wife Charlotte. He has one brother named George.

His father loved music and young Bob grew up listening to his father play various musical instruments. He was a big fan of Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

His parents had a troubled marriage and his father abandoned the family leaving his wife and kids to fend for themselves when Bob was just 10 years old.

He attended Pioneer High School and graduated in 1963.

Seger formed his first band “the Decibels” in 1961 while he was still in high school with two of his school mates Pete Stanger and H.B. Hunter.

He joined the band Town Criers as the lead vocalist. The other members included John Flis, Pep Perrine and Larry Mason. This band became very popular locally and had a steady following.

He left Town Criers to join a bigger band called the Omens headed by musician Doug Brown. It was with this band that Seger got his first appearance on an officially released recording in 1965 with the single ‘TGIF’.

Seger and Doug Brown were approached by Edward “Punch” Andrews to write a song for the band Underdogs which Punch was managing. He also began writing and producing for the other bands managed by Punch before choosing him as his own manager.

He formed his backing band called The Last Heard consisting of his former band mate Pep Perrine, Carl Lagassa and Dan Honaker. He released ‘East Side Story’ with the band in 1966 which became a big hit in Detroit.

He released four more singles with The Last Heard, the most successful of which was ‘Heavy Music’, released in 1967. It became a top 100 hit in Canada. It went on to become one of Seger’s most loved songs.

His 1976 album ‘Night Moves’ was his first major big hit which made him a hugely popular rock star. The album went multi Platinum and spawned two Billboard Hot 100 hits.

The album ‘Stranger in Town’ was super hit and went multi-Platinum in the U.S and Canada, and was accredited Gold in the U.K. The single ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’ was listed among one of the Songs of the Century in 2001.

‘Against the Wind’ was his only album to ever reach number one spot in the U.S. Billboard 200, a position which it occupied for six weeks. It was accredited multi Platinum in both the U.S. and Canada.