Madonna Remembers Seymour Stein as 'One of the Most Influential Men in My Life': 'I Am Weeping'

The story goes: “I stalked a DJ named Mark Kamin for a year at a club called Danceteria! In the Early 80’s. He finally agreed to play my demo of a song called “Everybody” on a Saturday night. The club was packed. An A&R man from Sire records was there – Michael Rosenblatt. He heard the music and asked me if he could bring me to meet his boss Seymour Stein.

That brings us to the hospital room where Stein had been admitted after suffering from a heart ailment, Madonna recalled. “I didn’t care. Lets Goooooo! When I met him he was laying in a hospital bed wearing his boxer shorts and a wife beater! He had a cannula up his nose and a saline Drip in his arm! He was grinning like the Cheshire Cat,” she remembered.

By 1983, Madonna’s self-titled debut album had been released to the world through Sire Records. “This moment changed the course of my life forever. And was the beginning of my journey as a musical artist. Not only did Seymour hear me but he saw me and my potential! For this I will be eternally grateful,” the singer wrote. “I am weeping as I write this down. Words cannot describe how I felt at this moment after years of grinding and being broke and getting every door slammed in my face.

He signed my friends band too. Then one night SS was with the band and a (drunk) member said something negative about Madonna. Soon after, the band was DROPPED. Big mistake, HUGE.

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