“Rock and Roll Never Forgets” by Bob Seger

"Rock and Roll Never Forgets" kicks off Night Moves, Bob Seger's ninth studio album, from 1976, and it's a veteran's victory lap written in the wake of a high school reunion. Seger, 31 at the time, said he wanted to take an honest measure of where his life stood, and he was simply happy to still be in the game after a decade-plus of scraping by on six to eight grand a year for the love of the music.

It rolls along at a mid-tempo clip under that raspy Seger voice. Released in early 1977 as the album's third and final single, it stalled at 41 on the Hot 100, but fans never let go of it, classic rock radio adopted it for keeps, and Seger has said crowds go wild when his band plays it live.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.