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‘Seymour,’ the producer Andrew Oldham observed, ‘had the ears of an angel and vinyl blood’; he was also an avid collector of Pre-Raphaelites
As the co-founder (with Richard Gottehrer) of Sire Records in 1966, Seymour Stein reshaped the direction of popular music with his signing and tireless support of acts like the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Pretenders, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Replacements and Madonna.
SAN DIEGO — Seymour Stein was never a household name to most music fans before his Sunday death from cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 80. But he certainly
He and his label, Sire Records, also championed punk and new-wave bands including the Ramones, Pretenders and Talking Heads.
Seymour Stein, the legendary music exec who cofounded Sire Records where he signed the Ramones, Madonna, and Talking Heads, died Sunday at age 80.