Seymour Stein

Seymour Stein ( born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is a rock music producer who was best known as the head of Sire Records and discoverer of the Ramones and Madonna.

Stein's music career began in the 1950s when he was a teenager, one day to the offices of Billboard magazine went with the strange request, from any chart table that Billboard had published since his birth year to be allowed to make a copy. The head of Billboard was impressed by the stone chart so interested that he offered him a job at the magazine. After Stein had compiled a long time charts lists for Billboard, he moved to work for Syd Nathan's King Records at the age of 16 years to Cincinnati. Then he got a job as an administrator at Red Bird Records by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. After this Red Bird Records had sold, Stone In 1966, together with Richard Gottehrer his own label Sire.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s began Sire albums by Focus and the Climax Blues Band to produce. Also, it was Stone who brought Fleetwood Mac to America. In the 1970s and 1980s Sire published mainly punk and New Wave albums. So discovered stone 1975, the Ramones, whose debut album Ramones appeared in 1976 on Sire. Other famous bands that received by stone a springboard, for example, were the Talking Heads and the Pretenders. Also The Smiths, The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cult, The 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.

However, Stein's most important discovery remains with Madonna, a performer, which can be assigned to either the punk or New Wave. The end of 1982 published Sire Everybody, the debut single from the then unknown singer. Stone was thrilled and offered her a contract for an entire album ( Madonna).

Stone still produces rock bands on his Sire label, which has become part of the Warner Music Group in 2003. He was honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his lifetime achievements in 2005.

1998 appeared the album The Boy With the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian. On this album there is a tribute, a (presumably fictional) meeting, at Seymour Stein. Among other things, is taken by the Ramones reference in the song Johnny Ramone on, which was produced by stone.

• Music producer
• Label owner
• Born in 1942
• Americans
• Man
• Ramones