Taylor Swift & Joe Alwyn Break Up, Doja Cat’s Rap Album, & More | Billboard News

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https://www.billboard.com/video/taylor-swift-amp-joe-alwyn-break-up-doja-rap-album-billboard-news/

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k.d. lang Recounts the Night Seymour Stein Signed Her – After Falling Asleep at Her Concert

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https://www.billboard.com/pro/seymour-stein-kd-lang-sire-records-founder-tribute/

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‘He Told Me I Sounded Like Bob Dylan’: Ice-T Remembers Seymour Stein

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https://www.billboard.com/pro/ice-t-sire-records-seymour-stein-sounded-like-bob-dylan/

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RIP #SeymourStein

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Bloody genius signing some absolute incredible talents.

You shall be remembered and missed

#SeymourStein, Legendary Music Exec Who Signed Madonna and Talking Heads, Dies at 80. https://variety.com/2023/music/news/seymour-stein-music-exec-madonna-talking-heads-dead-1235571169/ via #variety

I don’t think #SeymourStein (RIP) designed this #SireRecords logo, but thanks to all the acts he helped sign, I played enough Sire releases in my childhood that I would immediately catch the optical illusion where the large “S” would change to revolving backwards inside the logo while orbiting the center. (It’s a far far better logo than the “Olde English” 60s logo.)

Stevie Jackson - "Seymour Stein" (Radio session, 2012) #SeymourStein #music #RIP
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Seymour Stein, music mogul who discovered Madonna, Talking Heads and more, dies aged 80 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/03/seymour-stein-music-mogul-who-discovered-madonna-talking-heads-and-more-dies-aged-80

This is saddening.

When I was fifteen years old and started to write about music, a friend and I started a fanzine. I wrote wherever I could and asked for CDs and tapes that we could review. I wrote to Sire Records via email which was then a rare thing. Most people just didn't have email access.

A couple of months passed without hearing anything but suddenly I had a box to pick up at my local Swedish post office. It was from Sire and contained a lot of weird promos from bands like Bigod 20 and Aphex Twin. There was also a machine–typed letter signed by Stein. Among other things, the letter said Aphex Twin would become big and hoped we could spare a few words on at least Aphex and wished us good luck with our fanzine.

It's the nicest music-exec letter I've ever received.

I've never stopped spreading the gospel about Aphex Twin and I listened and wrote the absolute shit out of every single and album we received from Sire.

Such a nice gesture made me really happy and confident that I could make a living from writing.

I'm aware that the letter could have been written by some assistant but I'll hang on to the symbol value.

Seymour Stein was instrumental in launching the careers of bands like Ramones, Blondie, Madonna, and the American careers of The Smiths, The Cure, and Depeche Mode, among others.

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#SeymourStein, record exec who signed up Madonna, dead at 80

Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of #SireRecords who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, died Sunday at age 80.

Stein, who helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005, died of cancer in Los Angeles, according to a statement by his family.

https://apnews.com/article/seymour-stein-dead-sire-madonna-a3989ed327fda09760868824cb7a9c74

#RIP #SeymourStein

And now #SeymourStein.

Many of our lives would have been very different without his contribution. I know mine would.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/03/seymour-stein-music-mogul-who-discovered-madonna-talking-heads-and-more-dies-aged-80

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