Bob Seger's second album with the Silver Bullet Band and his 10th studio album overall dropped on this day in 1978.  The bar was set high after the breakout success of his Night Moves album moved Seger into an Arena scale artist nationwide, a standing he had previously achieved in and around Detroit.  Stranger in Town would go platinum within weeks of its release.  Bob took the same appraoch on it as he had with Night Moves, relying on the Silver Bullet Band for about half the songs and working with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on the others.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on May 5 include...

1948 Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward born. 

1965 The Warlocks, forerunner of the Grateful Dead,make live debut in a Menlo Park, California pizza place. 

1965 Alan Price quits the Animals.

1968 Buffalo Springfield does its last concert, Long Beach, CA.

1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival releases Bayou Country.

1978 AC/DC releases Powerage.

1981 Tom Petty releases Hard Promises.

1985 Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders marries Jim Kerr of Simple Minds in Central Park.   

1986 Rock Hall Of Fame officials announce museum will be in Cleveland.   

1996 Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott arrested after altercation with lady in an LA hotel. 

1995 Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler arrested on heroine charge.  

1997 Bruce Springsteen awarded Polar Music Prize by Sweden.

1997 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg dies.   

2014 Kenny Wayne Shepherd releases Goin' Home. 

2015 U2 members busk on a train platform at Grand Central Station in New York.   

2015 John Lodge releases 10,000 Light Years Ago...