A Good Day for Music

Inspired after watching the 1973 film ‘American Graffiti’, this songwriter said that his song was mostly autobiographical.

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

Night Moves

In 1973, a songwriter was walking out of a movie theater after watching the new ‘coming of age’ film, American Graffiti staring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfus, Paul LeMat and Harrison Ford. He thought about his time growing up and wondered if he could turn his story into a song.

He said in an interview that his breakout song introduced him to the nation and was mostly autobiographical, but didn’t elaborate on which parts were fact and which were made up. He figured that most of those stories were similar with everybody.

Bob wrote this song while he was on the road while trying to get noticed starting his rock and roll band playing the one night stands and took about six months to get it just right. When it came time to record the record, he went to the famous Muscle Shoals Studios in Alabama and used the Muscle Shoals rhythm section.

Bob Seger was already known in his home state of Michigan and had made some LPs, but Night Moves was the one that broke them to the rest of American audiences. His earlier records saw a gain in popularity. Night Moves was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of the 500 songs that Shape Rock and Roll.