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Sire celebrates 30th with four-disc set By Jonathan Cohen
2 hours, 40 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sire Records, the label that nurtured such acts as the Ramones, Madonna and the Smiths, will celebrate its upcoming 30th anniversary this fall with a four-disc boxed set.
Due Sept. 13 via Sire/Rhino, "Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story" rounds up 61 tracks on three audio CDs and another 20 music videos on a DVD.
Sire was founded in 1966 by former Billboard staffer Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. The label is perhaps best known for revealing the New York underground rock scene (the Ramones, Television, the Talking Heads) to a worldwide audience in the mid and late 1970s and, years later, rearing the careers of such acts Madonna, the Pretenders and the Smiths.
All of those acts are represented on "Just Say Sire," as are Morrissey, Erasure, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, the Tom Tom Club, Seal, the Cult, Ice-T, k.d. lang, Primal Scream, the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, My Bloody Valentine, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr. and Wilco. Stein, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, oversaw the remastering of all the tracks.
The DVD features such clips as Madonna's "Like a Prayer," the Ramones' "Rock'n'Roll High School," the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Cutter" and the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime."
Reuters/Billboard
2 hours, 40 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sire Records, the label that nurtured such acts as the Ramones, Madonna and the Smiths, will celebrate its upcoming 30th anniversary this fall with a four-disc boxed set.
Due Sept. 13 via Sire/Rhino, "Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story" rounds up 61 tracks on three audio CDs and another 20 music videos on a DVD.
Sire was founded in 1966 by former Billboard staffer Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. The label is perhaps best known for revealing the New York underground rock scene (the Ramones, Television, the Talking Heads) to a worldwide audience in the mid and late 1970s and, years later, rearing the careers of such acts Madonna, the Pretenders and the Smiths.
All of those acts are represented on "Just Say Sire," as are Morrissey, Erasure, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, the Tom Tom Club, Seal, the Cult, Ice-T, k.d. lang, Primal Scream, the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, My Bloody Valentine, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr. and Wilco. Stein, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, oversaw the remastering of all the tracks.
The DVD features such clips as Madonna's "Like a Prayer," the Ramones' "Rock'n'Roll High School," the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Cutter" and the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime."
Reuters/Billboard
