“Hollywood Nights” by Bob Seger

Bob Seger was renting a house in the Hollywood Hills, just getting Stranger in Town under way, when "Hollywood Nights" found him. The chorus rolled into his head while he drove those hills, as close as he says he came to a song arriving in a dream. Back at the house, a copy of Time with Cheryl Tiegs on the cover handed him the plot: a Midwestern guy who runs into a woman like that and gets swept into the whole bizarre scene.

Capitol issued it in 1978 as the album's second single, after "Still the Same". Seger wrote it alone and produced it with Punch; he sings and plays guitar over Chris Campbell's bass, David Teegarden's drums and Bill Payne's piano and organ, with Julia, Luther, Maxine and Oren Waters on background vocals. It hurtles like a man with no brakes.

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