Bob Seger is an American rock musician who began his career in the 1960s playing in the Detroit area. Though he has achieved noticeable success nationally, he is far more famous and well known in his home state of Michigan and surrounding states, where he enjoys a near-[[BruceSpringsteen Springsteenian]] iconic status.

He remained strictly a local favorite until 1976, with the release of ''Live Bullet'', a concert album recorded over two nights at Detroit's Cobo Arena. ''Live Bullet'' went on to be a perennial favorite of rock and oldies radio stations throughout Michigan and is often regarded to be one of the greatest live albums of all time. ''Night Moves'', a studio album released later the same year, was an even bigger hit and gave Seger his first Top 10 single with its title track. Subsequent albums including ''Stranger in Town'' (1978) and ''Against the Wind'' (1980) spawned more hits, and Seger has continued to enjoy considerable success over the subsequent 30+ years.

Seger's SignatureSong is "Old Time Rock and Roll", which is perhaps best known as the song that played during the famous scene of TomCruise dancing in his underwear in the movie ''RiskyBusiness''. One of Seger's other songs, "Like a Rock", was at least at one point the song for Chevrolet's truck commercials.

!Tropes present:
* AutoErotica: "Night Moves"
-->''Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy\\
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy\\
Workin' on mysteries without any clues\\
Workin' on our night moves...''
* ChristmasSongs: One of his '60s singles was "Sock It to Me, Santa", and he did a cover of "The Little Drummer Boy" for one of the ''Very Special Christmas'' charity compilations which still gets a lot of radio play.
* CoverAlbum: ''Smokin' O.P.'s''
* DeadMansHand: "Fire Lake"
-->"who's gonna play those eights and aces?"
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Mentioned in "Turn the Page" as one of the things that bum rockers out:
--> Most times you can't hear 'em talk
--> Other times you can
--> All the same old clichés:
--> "Is it a woman or a man?"
--> And you always seem outnumbered
--> You don't dare make a stand
* EpicRocking: ''Nine Tonight'' includes a live cover of Music/ChuckBerry's "Let It Rock" that runs 10+ minutes (although it's edited down considerably for the CD version).
* GarageRock: His late '60s/early '70s output mainly falls into this category.
* GreatestHitsAlbum: It took him a long time to release one, but when he finally did (1994), it became the biggest seller of his career. He's put out a couple more since then.
* HeavyMeta: "Old Time Rock and Roll", "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"
* InTheStyleOf: His rarely-heard 1967 single "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVG7hWLj-cg Persecution Smith]]" is a ProtestSong that owes more than a little to [[BobDylan another Bob]].
** "Roll Me Away" and "The Fire Inside" are anthemic rockers reminiscent of Music/BruceSpringsteen, and fittingly enough both feature piano work from the E Street Band's own Roy Bittan.
* LiveAlbum: ''Live Bullet'', ''Nine Tonight''
* {{Mondegreen}}: His earliest singles were released under the name "Bob Seger and the Last Heard". He decided to drop the band name due to its sounding uncomfortably similar to "the Last Turd".
* RepurposedPopSong: "Like a Rock".
* RockstarSong: "Turn the Page", in a bittersweet way.
* SmallTownBoredom: "Face the Promise"
* VocalEvolution: By the 1990s, his voice got gradually deeper. He's way deeper on ''Face the Promise'' in particular.
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