Seymour Stein

[bunnybunny]

Stein has fond memories of three Liverpool bands he has worked with – The Farm, The Wild Swans, and, of course, the Bunnymen.

He laughs as he recalls the first time he saw the Bunnymen.

“There was a gig on at the YMCA in Tottenham Court Road,” he says. “It was in a sub-sub-sub basement and there was no elevator. I said to my assistant ‘we’d better find something here’.

“Mac blew me away. He was like a poet. It was as if Lord Byron was alive, or Keats, or Shelley, with a rock band.

“Great poetry, great music. I just loved them, and did a deal with their manager Bill Drummond right then.”

But Sire, then owned by Warner, didn’t have the budget to sign the band – so Stein and Rob Dickens – “the best A&R man in England” – founded the Korova label to put out their records.

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[In The Margins]

Ian has said some nasty things about Seymour Stein over the years, and yet Stein shows up and says nice things about him.

I would have felt like two cents.