Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as
Bob Seger and the Last Heard and
Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the "System" from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the
Silver Bullet Band, a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album
Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at
Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album
Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger's best-selling singles and albums.