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Stein, Seymour, 1942-2023

LC control no.no2014006952
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LC classificationML429.S82 Biography
Personal name headingStein, Seymour, 1942-2023
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Birth date1942
Death date2023
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityMusic trade Sound recording industry
AffiliationSire Records Company
Profession or occupationSound recording executives and producers
Found inThe first annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. induction dinner, 1986: induction ceremony program masthead (Seymour Stein, program editor, writer, foundation member)
Guide to the Sire Records Collection (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Musem. Library and Archives) (donor as listed in custodial history: Seymour Stein; Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer found Sire Productions, 1966)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum website, January 8, 2014: inductees (Seymour Stein; cofounder and chairman of Sire Records)
Allmusic, January 8, 2014 (Seymour Stein; head of Sire Records, signing Madonna, the Ramones, Fleetwood Mac)
Wikipedia, January 8, 2014 (Seymour Stein; born 1942, Brooklyn, New York; entrepreneur, music executive, co-founder of Sire Records)
Grove dictionary of American Music, Second edition, 2013 (Stein, Seymour; born Brooklyn, NY, 1942; founder of Sire Records)
Variety, June 13, 2024: Seymour Stein, Legendary Music Exec Who Signed Madonna and Talking Heads, Dies at 80; published April 2, 2023 (Seymour Stein, whose Sire Records launched Madonna's career and signed such early punk rock and new wave icons as the Ramones and Talking Heads, died Sunday morning in Los Angeles)
   <https://variety.com/2023/music/news/seymour-stein-music-exec-madonna-talking-heads-dead-1235571169/>