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Seymour Stone (2013)

Seymour Stein (* 1942 in Brooklyn , New York ) is a rock music - producer who primarily as head of Sire Records and discovered the Ramones and Madonna became known.

Stein's music career began in the 1950s when, still a teenager, one day he went to the offices of Billboard magazine with a strange request that he be allowed to copy every chart table Billboard had published since the year he was born . The head of Billboard was so impressed by Stein's interest in charting that he offered him a job with the magazine. After compiling hit parade lists for Billboard for a while, Stein moved to Cincinnati at the age of 16 to work for Syd Nathan's King Records . He then got a job as an administrator at Red Bird Records from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller . After they had sold Red Bird Records, Stein founded his own label Sire together with Richard Gottehrer in 1966 .

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sire began producing albums for Focus and the Climax Blues Band . It was also Stein who brought Fleetwood Mac to America. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sire mainly released punk and new wave albums. So Stein discovered the Ramones in 1975, whose debut album Ramones appeared in 1976 on Sire. Other famous bands that Stein got a chance to start included the Talking Heads and the Pretenders . Also, The Smiths , The Cure , Echo & The Bunnymen , The Cult , Flamin 'Groovies , Richard Hell and the Voidoids , Modern English , Aztec Camera , The Replacements and The Dead Boys published some of her most important works on Sire.

With Madonna, Stein's most important discovery remains an interpreter who cannot be assigned to either punk or new wave. At the end of 1982 Sire released Everybody , the debut single of the then unknown singer. Stein was thrilled and offered her a contract for an entire album ( Madonna ) .

Stein still produces rock bands on his Sire label, which became part of the Warner Music Group in 2003 . In 2005 he was honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his life's work.

In 1998, the album was released The Boy With the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian . This album pays homage to a (presumably fictional) meeting to Seymour Stein. Among other things, the song also refers to Johnny Marr from The Smiths, who was also 'discovered' by Stein.