![]() ‘Mainstreet’ was a staple of the late evening show, and many time I had the piercing guitar line of its intro coming into my head via the earphones I used to avoid disturbing the rest of the house at that time.īy early 1977 I was spoiling for something like Seger. ![]() With nothing to get up for, I rapidly fell into a late night habit of listening to the evening show, from 11.00pm to 2.00am. I’d completed my professional exams but found myself stuck without Articles of Clerkship to continue my progress towards qualifying as a Solicitor. I was listening mainly to Piccadilly Radio, our local commercial station, whose playlist policy was later described by its programme director as ‘something that sounds nice between the commercials’ (and I thought you were so much better than Radio 1, shame on you!) But it’s follow-up in America, the slow, haunting ballad, “Mainstreet” (and yes, it is all one word) came out in the UK early in 1977. Over here, if ‘Night Moves’ was given any airplay, I don’t remember hearing it. Seger had been around as a Detroit area rock musician since the beginning of the Sixties, but came to national prominence in America in 1976 with the release of the album Night Moves, of which the title track was a big hit single. Some artists are around for a very long time, changing or unchanging, but there’s only a relatively narrow window in which they cross your attention.
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