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PROMOTIONAL ONLY means issued by record company in very limited quantity and sent to select industry professionals ONLY for promotional consideration/airplay. Never for sale and highly collectable releases Uk promotional single [METCJ18] for the track ‘Turn The Page’ from ‘Garage Inc’. It’s a song written and recorded by Bob Seger. The song was originally released by Seger in 1973 on his ‘Back In 72’ album. Seger's original version never made the charts, but an evocative live performance on his 1975 ‘Live Bullet’ album became a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations, and still gets significant airplay to this day on classic rock stations. He revealed at his concert in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during his 2006 tour that he had written the song in a hotel room in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. ‘Turn The Page’ is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician's life on the road, against a slow tempo and a mournful saxophone part. Metallicas cover version was the first single from their 1998 ‘Garage Inc.’ album and it reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. Drummer Lars Ulrich had heard the original song while driving across the Golden Gate Bridge and later commented that he thought it ‘Had James [Hetfield] all over it’. Metallica's rendition is taken at much the same tempo as Seger's, but with a heavier feel; the saxophone part is replaced by a high slide guitar line from Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield played a guitar solo before the last run through the chorus. Metallica's music video for the song, directed by Jonas Akerlund, is about the life of a stripper who prostitutes herself while she is trying to raise a child; the prostitute/stripper is played by Ginger Lynn Allen. With promo label Track listing: 1. Turn The Page-single edit 2. Turn The Page-album version