Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
"Turn the Page" is a song originally recorded by Bob Seger in 1971 and released on his Back in '72 album in 1973.
It was not released as a single until Seger's live version of the song on the 1976 Live Bullet album got released in Germany and the UK.
The song became a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations and still gets significant airplay on classic rock stations.
Seger said of the song:
I never thought that song would last as long as it has. That’s one of the songs we must play or people get very agitated. If we don’t play that the fans are definitely disappointed.
That song captured something.
I wrote "Turn The Page" in 1971.
It was the eighth or ninth year of that 10-year period where I was going nowhere fast.
We’d been harassed at a truck stop in Wisconsin at two in the morning by some salesmen who kept calling us “girls” because we all had long hair. So we left because we didn’t want to get into a fight and become some police report.
The next night I’m sitting there singing: ‘On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha. You can listen to the engine moanin’ out its one-note song… Well, you walk into a restaurant all strung out from the road. And you feel the eyes upon you as you’re shakin’ off the cold. You pretend it doesn’t bother you but you just want to explode….’
I was thinking about how these people hate you because of the way you look, and how unreasonable it is.
That became part of it. But the bigger thing, I think, was the real weariness of the road, and I tried to capture that. I think I captured it for truck drivers.
I think I captured it for travelling businessmen. And I think I just captured it for people who have to travel a lot and just plain miss home or family or both.
"Turn the Page" is a song originally recorded by Bob Seger in 1971 and released on his Back in '72 album in 1973.
It was not released as a single until Seger's live version of the song on the 1976 Live Bullet album got released in Germany and the UK.
The song became a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations and still gets significant airplay on classic rock stations.
Seger said of the song:
I never thought that song would last as long as it has. That’s one of the songs we must play or people get very agitated. If we don’t play that the fans are definitely disappointed.
That song captured something.
I wrote "Turn The Page" in 1971.
It was the eighth or ninth year of that 10-year period where I was going nowhere fast.
We’d been harassed at a truck stop in Wisconsin at two in the morning by some salesmen who kept calling us “girls” because we all had long hair. So we left because we didn’t want to get into a fight and become some police report.
The next night I’m sitting there singing: ‘On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha. You can listen to the engine moanin’ out its one-note song… Well, you walk into a restaurant all strung out from the road. And you feel the eyes upon you as you’re shakin’ off the cold. You pretend it doesn’t bother you but you just want to explode….’
I was thinking about how these people hate you because of the way you look, and how unreasonable it is.
That became part of it. But the bigger thing, I think, was the real weariness of the road, and I tried to capture that. I think I captured it for truck drivers.
I think I captured it for travelling businessmen. And I think I just captured it for people who have to travel a lot and just plain miss home or family or both.
