Siren song
Subtitle: my life in music
By: Seymour Stein with Gareth Murphy
Contributors: Murphy, Gareth
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781250081018; 9781250116857
Subjects: Sound recording executives and producers; Sire Records Company; Biography
Description: Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, now sixty years in the game, he's still the hippest label head, travelling the globe in search of the next big thing. Since the late fifties, he's been wherever it's happening: Billboard, Tin Pan Alley, The British Invasion, CBGB, Studio 54, Danceteria, the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, the CD crash. Along that winding path, he discovered and broke out a skyline full of stars: Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Madonna, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Lou Reed, Seal, and many others. Brimming with hilarious scenes and character portraits, Siren Song's wider narrative is about modernity in motion, and the slow acceptance of diversity in America - thanks largely to daring pop music. Including both the high and low points in his life, Siren Song touches on everything from his discovery of Madonna to his wife Linda Stein's violent death. Ask anyone in the music business, Seymour Stein is a legend. Sung from the heart, Siren Song will etch his story in stone.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Shellac in his veins; title: Syd and the kid; title: Sire for hire; title: Surfing in Kansas; title: Rocket to Russia; title: This ain't no party; title: Borderline; title: The killing moon; title: Crazy; title: The song.