Seymour Stein
| Seymour Stein | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 18, 1942 Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation |
Entrepreneur Music executive |
| Spouse(s) | Linda S. Stein (divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
Seymour Stein (born 18 April 1942) is an entrepreneur in the music industry. His first job was a clerk for Billboard magazine in 1958. Stein is a Vice President of Warner Bros. Records and a co-founder of Sire Records.
As a high school student, Stein interned a couple summers (1957–58) at King Records in Cincinnati. In 1961, he worked 2 years for King Records.
In 1966, Stein and record producer Richard Gottehrer founded Sire Productions, which led to the formation of Sire Records, the label under which he signed pioneer artists such as the Ramones and Talking Heads in 1975, the Pretenders in 1980 and Madonna in 1982. Other acts signed by Sire include The Replacements (band), Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, The Undertones and Echo & the Bunnymen.
Such was Stein's influence in signing and promoting the new wave genre of music that he is sometimes credited with coming up with the name as an alternative to the term punk, which he found derogative. The term had previously been used to refer to the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s.
Stein remains the President of Sire Records and is also Vice President of Warner Bros. Records with which he has had a marketing and distribution deal from 1976 to 1994 and again since April 2003. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005, under the lifetime-achievement category.
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