Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Stranger In Town (1978)

Charts: U.S. #4, AUS #12, GER #28, SWE #45, UK #35. US: 6x Platinum, CAN: 4 Platinum, UK: Gold.
After the runaway success of Live Bullet and Night Moves, the title Stranger In Town was Bob Seger sounding a note of caution. "I was a stranger to all of this: success, fame, money," he said in 1979. "I was so afraid that it was going to stop at any minute. I was afraid that I had just gotten lucky.
"We all have self doubts... but after 13 years of people telling you, 'you're gonna make it,' and not making it, and you actually disappointing those people... after 13 years, I was trying to figure out what I had done right."
Seger had no need to worry, and the album features some of his most fearless songs: Hollywood Nights, despite its theme of innocence abroad, is a ferocious, adrenalin-fuelled rush; while We Got Tonight is the polar opposite, an achingly tender ballad that was later covered by artists as disparate as Shirley Bassey, Richie Havens, Barry Manilow and Jeff Healey.
Old Time Rock And Roll – used in the iconic Tom Cruise dancing scene in Risky Business, and the second-most-played single on American jukeboxes ever (behind Patsy Cline’s Crazy) – was added almost as an afterthought.
"Old Time Rock And Roll came to me at the very end of Stranger In Town," said Seger. All I kept from the original [written by George Jackson and Thom Jones] was:‘Old time rock and roll, that kind of music soothes the soul, I reminisce about days of old with that old time rock and roll.’ I rewrote the verses and I never took credit.
"That was the dumbest thing I ever did. And Thom Jones and George Jackson know it too. But I just wanted to finish the record. I rewrote every verse you hear except for the choruses. I didn’t ask for credit.
"My manager said: “You should ask for a third of the credit.” And I said: “Nah. Nobody’s gonna like it.” I’m not credited on it so I couldn’t control the copyright either. Meanwhile it became a Wendy’s commercial because I couldn’t control it. Oh my god, it was awful!"
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