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| | Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Sire Records was formed in 1966 by record entreprenuers Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. |
 | | Sire was the label to boost American punk bands like Ramones, Talking Heads, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids, only to call them new wave in an effort to make them seem less antagonistic and more marketable. |
 | | Sire licensed some of the most groundbreaking European electronic pop: the Normal's "Warm Leatherette," Telex's "Moskow Diskow," Soft Cell's "Tainted Love." Sire was the favored American label of '80s Anglophiles, importing the Smiths, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Aztec Camera, and later, prime shoegaze bands My Bloody Valentine and Ride. |
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