Tagged: Sire Records

Madonna with Seymour Stein

Seymour Stein leaves WMG, heading for the next chapter in his career

Music industry icon Seymour Stein, co-founder of Sire Records, the man who signed and released albums by Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, the Pretenders, and many others – will be leaving Warner Music Group after four decades with the company.

The announcement was made by WMG  together with the news that Stein was honored with the Recording Academy’s Trustees Award last Saturday in Los Angeles. Read More

Siren Song

How I Met Madonna, by Seymour Stein, the Man Who Signed Her

On June 12 St. Martin’s Press released Siren Song, the autobiography of America’s greatest living record man: Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records and spotter of rock talent from the Ramones to Madonna.

Now Variety.com brings to you one of the things that make the memoir book precious for every Madonna fan: a lightly edited excerpt from the chapter where he meets the soon-to-be Queen of Pop for the first time. Read More