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"Turn the Page"
Unmarried past Bob Seger & The Silvery Bullet Band
from the anthology Back in '72, Live Bullet
B-side	"Get Out of Denver"
Released	1973 (original) 1976 (live version)
Recorded	1972 (original), September 1975 (alive version) Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan
Genre	Rock soul
Length	five:eleven five:06 (alive)
Characterization	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Bob Seger
Producer(s)	Punch Andrews Bob Seger

"Plow the Page" is a song originally recorded by Bob Seger in 1972 and released on his Back in '72 album in 1973. It was not released as a unmarried,^[ane] until Seger's alive version of the song on the 1976 Live Bullet album got released in Germany and the United kingdom. The song became a mainstay of album-oriented stone radio stations, and still gets significant airplay on classic rock stations.

Inspiration [edit]

"Turn the Page" is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician's life on the road. Seger wrote it in 1972 while touring with Teegarden & Van Winkle. Drummer David Teegarden (of Teegarden & Van Winkle and afterwards the Silverish Bullet Band) recalls:

Nosotros had been playing somewhere in the Midwest, or the northern reaches, on our style to N or South Dakota. [Guitarist] Mike Bruce was with usa. Nosotros'd been traveling all night from the Detroit area to make this gig, driving in this blinding snowstorm. It was probably iii in the morning. Mike decided it was time to go gas. He was slowing down to leave the interstate and spied a truck cease. We all had very long hair back and so – it was the hippie era – but Skip, Mike and Bob had all stuffed their hair up in their hats. You had to exist careful out on the road similar that, because you'd get ostracized. When I walked in, there was this gauntlet of truckers making comments – "Is that a girl or homo?" I was seething; those guys were laughing their asses off, a big funny joke. That next night, after we played our gig – I retrieve it was Mitchell, S.D. – Seger says, "Hey, I've been working on this song for a fleck, I've got this new line for it. He played information technology on audio-visual guitar, and there was that line: "Oh, the aforementioned old cliches / 'Is that a woman or a man?' " It was "Turn the Folio."^[two]

Tom Weschler, then road director for Seger, remembers the same incident:

"Plow the Folio," Bob's great route vocal, came along in '72, while nosotros were driving home from a gig. I call up we were in Dubuque, Iowa, in wintertime and stopped at a restaurant. We stood out when nosotros entered a shop or a gas station or a eatery en masse. At this eating house it was specially brilliant inside, so there weren't any dark corners to hide in. All these local guys were looking at us like, "What are these guys? Is that a woman or a man?" – just like in the song. ... That was one incident, just there were so many others on the road that led Seger to write that song.^[iii]

While on bout in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Nov 16, 2006, promoting his 16th studio album Face the Promise, Seger said he wrote the song in a hotel room in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.^{[4] [5]}

Instrumentation [edit]

Both Seger's studio and live versions of "Turn the Page" characteristic a Mellotron and a saxophone part played by founding Silver Bullet member Alto Reed. Tom Weschler allegedly helped inspire Reed to create the opening melody. During recording, Weschler told Reed: "Alto, think almost it similar this: Yous're in New York City, on the Bowery. It's 3 a.m. Yous're under a streetlamp. At that place's a light mist coming down. You're all past yourself. Show me what that sounds like." With that, Reed played the opening melody to "Plough the Page".^[3]

Personnel on live recording [edit]

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Seger'south 1994 Greatest Hits compilation.^{[half dozen]}

• Bob Seger – atomic number 82 vocals, electric pianoforte

The Silver Bullet Band

• Drew Abbott – guitar
• Chris Campbell – bass
• Charlie Allen Martin – drums
• Alto Reed – saxophone
• Robyn Robbins – Mellotron

Certifications [edit]

Jon English cover [edit]

Australian vocalizer Jon English released a version of the vocal in 1974 every bit the lead unmarried from his second studio anthology, It'south All a Game. The vocal peaked at number 20 on the Kent Music Report.^[8]

Metallica embrace [edit]

"Turn the Page"
Single by Metallica
from the album Garage Inc.
B-side	"Bleeding Me" "Rock Common cold Crazy" "The Look"
Released	November 16, 1998
Recorded	September–Oct 1998
Genre	Heavy metal, hard rock
Length	half-dozen:06
Characterization	Elektra
Songwriter(south)	Bob Seger
Producer(s)	Bob Rock
Metallica singles chronology
"Better than You" (1998) "Turn the Page" (1998) "Whiskey in the Jar" (1999)
Music video
"Turn the Page" on YouTube

Of the many embrace versions that accept been recorded, the well-nigh popular cover version is past Metallica, who released information technology equally the beginning unmarried from their 1998 Garage Inc. album, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for eleven sequent weeks, the highest number of weeks Metallica has ever spent at the acme; the vocal also reached number 2 on the Billboard Bubbles Under Hot 100. Drummer Lars Ulrich had heard the original song while driving across the Aureate Gate Bridge and later commented that he idea it "had James Hetfield all over information technology".^[9] Metallica'south rendition is taken at much the same tempo as Seger's, but with a heavier feel; the saxophone function is replaced by a high slide guitar line from Kirk Hammett. The accompanying music video explores a mean solar day in the life not of musicians, but a single mother (played by Ginger Lynn) who is a sex worker; that is, she works as a stripper by mean solar day, and a prostitute by nighttime. MTV refused to air the video due to nudity and a scene depicting sexual assault betwixt the mother and a client.^[x] The video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund.^[11]

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Twelvemonth-cease charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Influences [edit]

Jon Bon Jovi has claimed that the song was a big influence on him and Richie Sambora when they were writing their 1986 song "Wanted Dead or Alive".^[28]

Awards [edit]

In 2014, Seger performed the song on CMT Crossroads with country singer Jason Aldean. The video of the operation won the CMT Music Award for Performance Video of the Yr.^[29]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Bob Seger". Discogs.com . Retrieved 21 Dec 2021.
2. ^ Brian McCollum (March 14, 2004). "A definitive oral history of Seger's early on years". Detroit Complimentary Printing.
3. ^ ^{a b} Weschler, Tom, and Gary Graff. Travelin Man: on the road and behind the scenes with Bob Seger. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2009.
4. ^ Times-Niggling, Keith Spera, NOLA com | The. "Bob Seger to 'Turn the Page' in New Orleans for the first time in decades". Nola.com . Retrieved 24 April 2021.
5. ^ "8 reasons y'all shouldn't accept missed Bob Seger's goodbye to Milwaukee". OnMilwaukee.com. 25 Jan 2019. Retrieved 24 Apr 2021.
6. ^ Greatest Hits (CD). Bob Seger. Capitol Records. 1994. CDP 7243 8 30334 ii 3. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
7. ^ "American single certifications – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Turn the Page". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Nautical chart Book. ISBN0-646-11917-half-dozen.
9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January ten, 2006. Retrieved January xi, 2006. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
10. ^ "Ginger Lynn". IMDb.
11. ^ Armstrong, Chuck. "Metallica, 'Turn the Page' – Official Music Video". Ultimate Metallica. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
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13. ^ "Metallica – Turn the Page" (in German). Ö3 Austria Pinnacle 40. Retrieved Nov 8, 2020.
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16. ^ "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 15, no. l. Dec 12, 1998. p. 10. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
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19. ^ "Metallica – Turn the Page" (in Dutch). Unmarried Top 100. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
20. ^ "Metallica – Plow the Page". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved November eight, 2020.
21. ^ "Metallica – Turn the Folio". VG-lista. Retrieved November viii, 2020.
22. ^ "Metallica – Turn the Page". Singles Top 100. Retrieved Nov 8, 2020.
23. ^ "Metallica Nautical chart History (Bubbles Under Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November viii, 2020.
24. ^ "Metallica Chart History (Culling Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved Nov 8, 2020.
25. ^ "Metallica Chart History (Mainstream Stone)". Billboard. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
26. ^ "1998 ARIA Singles Nautical chart". ARIA. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
27. ^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1999" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17. Retrieved Nov viii, 2020.
28. ^ Video: Jon Bon Jovi talks with Richie Sambora and the audience virtually Bob Seger on YouTube
29. ^ "2015 CMT Music Awards: The Winners". CMT.com. June 11, 2015.

External links [edit]

• "Reason to Stone" review

watkinstheausted.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_Page_%28Bob_Seger_song%29

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