Seymour Stein dies: Music exec who signed Madonna, Talking Heads and more

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And that’s what you need in an artist. She worked harder than anybody.\””,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”\”I saw her staunch determination and I knew she would work as hard as I did and much harder, in fact. And that’s what you need in an artist. 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We wanted to be on Sire.\””,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”In the notes of a 2006 Sire box set, guitarist Johnny Marr recalled: \”He was one of the only people in the whole of the States who got it. We wanted to be on Sire.\””,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}},{“type”:”social”,”model”:{“source”:”https://twitter.com/johnny_marr/status/1642795943492743168″,”provider”:”twitter”,”html”:”\u003cblockquote class=\”twitter-tweet\”>\u003cp lang=\”en\” dir=\”ltr\”>RIP Seymour Stein. Legendary record man. Signed me to Sire Records in 1984 and bought me my Red 355 from 48th Street to seal the deal. Worked with The Drifters, Rolling Stones & Shangri-Las. Discovered Talking Heads, Ramones & Madonna. Well done Seymour & thank you my friend. \u003ca href=\”https://t.co/p2BGzlpcqU\”>pic.twitter.com/p2BGzlpcqU\u003c/a>\u003c/p>— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) \u003ca href=\”https://twitter.com/Johnny_Marr/status/1642795943492743168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\”>April 3, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/blockquote>\n”,”width”:550,”providerIndex”:0,”authorName”:”Johnny Marr”,”oembedType”:”rich”}},{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan wrote: \”He had the courage to sign the type of bands that I grew up listening to, when everyone else was scared and baffled.\””,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan wrote: \”He had the courage to sign the type of bands that I grew up listening to, when everyone else was scared and baffled.\””,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}},{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch said Stein had \”the best taste and ears I’ve ever known\”, while Creation founder Alan McGee said he was \”my role model in the music business\”.”,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch said Stein had \”the best taste and ears I’ve ever known\”, while Creation founder Alan McGee said he was \”my role model in the music business\”.”,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}},{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”In 2005, Stein was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which hailed his ability to \”hear the future\”.”,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”In 2005, Stein was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “,”attributes”:[]}},{“type”:”urlLink”,”model”:{“text”:”which hailed his ability to \”hear the future\””,”locator”:”https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/seymour-stein”,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”which hailed his ability to \”hear the future\””,”attributes”:[]}}]}},{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”.”,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}},{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”Introducing him on stage at that ceremony, Ice-T said: \”When you take Mighty Lemon Drops, The Ramones, Madonna, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Ice-T, you put them together, it doesn’t seem like they go together.”,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”Introducing him on stage at that ceremony, Ice-T said: \”When you take Mighty Lemon Drops, The Ramones, Madonna, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Ice-T, you put them together, it doesn’t seem like they go together.”,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}},{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”\”But they do. 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