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Reducing the expansive and illustrious career of Bob Seger<\/a> down to one song is something of an impossibility. In terms of lasting fan favourites, though, you would have to go some way to eclipse his 1976 anthem \u2018Night Moves\u2019. <\/p>\n One of the great coming-of-age rock anthems, capturing Seger\u2019s heartland sound and marking an unavoidable highlight of the mainstream rock airwaves of 1970s America, \u2018Night Moves\u2019 quickly became one of his definitive tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n While it wasn\u2019t a colossal departure from the songwriter\u2019s typical sound, at least at that point in his discography, the single was indebted to the inspiration of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u2018Born to Run\u2019 songwriting style, along with some choice inspiration from the Hollywood realm.<\/p>\n Music and film have always gone hand-in-hand, like Seger and his Silver Bullet Band, or Springsteen and New Jersey. A particular highlight of that shared relationship arrived in 1973, when film collided with 1950s rock \u2018n\u2019 roll Americana in George Lucas\u2019 pre-Star Wars effort, American Graffiti. A movie so awash with musical excellence<\/a> that its soundtrack album became a US top-ten release, its spirit invariably lodged itself in the mind of Bob Seger. <\/p>\n In particular, that film manifested itself within \u2018Night Moves\u2019, a song soaked in the nostalgia of 1950s teenage life, fast cars, and adolescent romance. \u201cIt was inspired by the movie American Graffiti,\u201d Seger once attested, during a chat with Classic Rock<\/a>, \u201cIt was all about cars and peg pants and rolled-up T-shirts with a cigarette pack up here, and stiletto pointed shoes. That\u2019s how I grew up, that was my high-school years.\u201d<\/p>\n That spirit certainly manifests itself within the track, along with the endearingly cheesy music video starring Matt LeBlanc. \u201cIt was the easiest song in the world to write, but the hardest song to finish. It took me six months to finish it,\u201d he shared. Seemingly, capturing the entirety of your youth in one song isn\u2019t such an easy task, at least in terms of finding a conclusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the end, it was Springsteen\u2019s \u2018Born to Run\u2019 that sparked the final stages of Seger\u2019s anthem, leading the songwriter to the possibility of having two separate bridges in one song. Suddenly, \u2018Night Moves\u2019 makes a lot more sense when you realise that it is the product of American Graffiti colliding with Bruce Springsteen\u2019s heartland genius.\u00a0<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n Either way, once the song was eventually completed, it soon became clear that Seger\u2019s career was to be forever changed. \u201cPeople at Capitol Records told me after they heard the song \u2018Night Moves\u2019 that I had a \u2018career record\u2019,\u201d he recalled, \u201cThey said: \u2018This is a song that you\u2019re gonna have to play for the rest of your life\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n That prediction hasn\u2019t been far from the truth, either. At 81 years of age, Seger has been officially retired since 2019, but \u2018Night Moves\u2019 continued to be a song that he performed right up until the final days of his beloved music career, belted out by legions of fans<\/a> with similar memories of 1950s teen years, or their own tales that nevertheless fit with Seger\u2019s universal ode to coming-of-age. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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