BOB SEGER CONQUERS THE WORLD (And About Time!)

By all accounts, Bob Seger is your archetypal Nice Guy—polite, friendly, low key, easy-going, self-effacing, able to laugh at himself with ease. Despite the beard and shoulder-length hair, he has the well-scrubbed look of a 30-ish Midwestern-boy-next-door.

Even so, there’s something initially disarming about that demeanor as he steps out of a Holiday Inn shower and into a dark blue bathrobe for a noon interview on the day of his first New York date as a headliner. “Went to see the Eagles last night,” he offers by way of explanation. “They were...uh...just like the Eagles. Real good.” He shrugs, grins, and takes a seat, small-talking all the while.