![]() “‘What?’ I snapped back, which was unusual for me. Peering into the back of my head with those Madonna eyes, she said, ‘And now, you give me the money.’ she didn’t take long to cut through all the small talk and go straight for the kill. “She wasn’t even interested in hearing me explain how much I liked her demo. “She was all dolled up in cheap punky gear, the kind of club kid who looked absurdly out of place in a cardiac ward,” Stein wrote in his 2018 memoir Siren Song: My Life in Music. Over the next two decades, the label signed a varied list of acts including the Replacements, Echo & the Bunnymen, Madness, the Undertones, the Smiths and lead singer Morrissey, Brian Wilson, kd lang, Seal, Wilco, Ice-T, Lou Reed, Everything But the Girl, My Bloody Valentine and Australian band the Saints.īut Stein’s biggest commercial success was Madonna, who was signed to Sire after he heard her demo for Everybody while recovering from open-heart surgery, and summoned her to his hospital bed. ![]() Sire was acquired by Warner Bros in 1978. Seymour and Linda Stein (centre) with Iggy Pop and the Ramones at New York club CBGB in 1976. ![]()
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