Our hometown R&R Inductee also received a Special Commemorative Section in this Sunday's Detroit Free Press. Here's a quick synopsis from Free Press pop music writer Brian McCollum (who also will be in NY Monday at the ceremony) showcasing some of Seger's more famous musical highlights (reprinted without permission):

"Once 'Live Bullet' finally made Segar a national name, he consistently found a place in the larger pop-culture landscape. Here are some of those defining moments:

1977- 'Night Moves': Seger's first massive hit broke onto the Billboard charts in early 1977, and quickly climbed to No. 4. The nostalgic tale of teenage times remain one of his most enduring songs.

1983 - 'Risky Business': 'Old Time Rock & Roll', a hosanna to rock in the age of disco, had been just a minor hit upon its 1979 release. What cemented it as a classic was Tom Cruise in underwear, dancing alone in one of Hollywood's most all-time memorable scenes.

1987 - 'Shakedown': Other Seger songs have better stood the test of time, but this track from 'Beverly Hills Cop II' stands as the rocker's only No. 1 pop hit. 'I liked the "shakedown" part, but I hated their lyrics. So I re-wrote all their lyrics in the verses', Seger recalls. 'They showed me the movie, and it just happened in like two weeks- boom, boom, boom'

1991 - Chervolet's 'Like A Rock': It's the longest-running ad campaign in modern television--the familiar strains of 'Like A Rock' set to rugged images of Chevy trucks. Recalls executive vice president Bill Ludwig of Warren ad fame Campbell-Ewald: 'Seger resisted at first. During our negotiations with him, he was in a bar in Birmingham. A Detroit auto worker had had a few pops and sat next to him and said, "Hey, when are you gonna do something for the auto workers in Detroit?" . . .And the rest is history.'

1994, 'Greatest Hits': Ten years after its release, Seger's first volume of hits remains a perennial best seller--now in its 487th week on the Billboard charts with more than 6 million copies sold. A second volume was released in November.

1996, Comeback tour: It had been nearly a decade since Seger's last onstage performance when he and the Silver Bullet Band hit American arenas--including eight sold-out hometown shows at the Palace and Pine Knob. Locally, 20,000 tickets sold in two minutes, 100,000 within the first hour. 'It was our biggest concert event ever', says the Palace's Jeff Corey. 'And it'll probably be a long time before somebody matches it--unless he decides to go out again'.

2004, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: After years of loud complaints from fans who felt he'd been overlooked by hall of fame voters, Seger got the big news in November: 'I heard the family screaming upstairs, and they came down and just piled on top of me", he says of the moment the phone call came."