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While this song is one I always dread seeing come up in a set list with any band for which I play, it's still an all-time classic rock anthem. There are very few people in the world who wouldn't know what's coming after hearing that opening piano riff. It's a song that's guarenteed to get your bar crowd up and dancing, standing in the ranks of other all-too-familiar bar songs like "Honky Tonk Woman" and "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," also know as "A Little Change in my Pocket" to drunken bar hoppers. It's easy to see why the song gets played so often and why it's a crowd favorite. The groove is infectious, the chorus is an easy sing-a-long, and the sax solo is superb.
Seger is famous for not only producing great performances; he also writes a lot of his own music. This song, however, arguably his biggest hit, was actually written by George Jackson, a talented songwriter and singer. The amount of input or creative changes Seger put in to the song is somewhat debated. He claims to have rewritten all the lyrics, except the chorus. On the other hand, there are people who worked for and with him on the album, Stranger in Town, who say the song was all but completed by Jackson. Either way it came to be, it's been cemented in pop culture and become a staple of pop music.
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