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The Smiths held their label to ransom until Johnny Marr got this guitar: “As soon as I got that back to the hotel, I wrote Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now in about 10 minutes”

Marr will be auctioning off his four-decade guitar collection next month, including a Gibson ES-355 that played a pivotal role in The Smiths’ repertoire

Guitar World

Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man

Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner

The Guardian - UK

“I couldn’t imagine them being put away and left unplayed”: Johnny Marr to sell nearly 100 pieces of gear at auction – including prized Smiths-era guitars

Guitars that have featured on some of the Smiths’ biggest songs, and moonlighted in Oasis, are up for grabs

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Johnny Marr to auction iconic guitars he played with The Smiths and solo work

Marr will donate 100 per cent of the hammer price from 10 lots to two charities

The Independent UK

Guitars used by Johnny Marr in The Smiths to go to auction in London

A Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo which was featured on the cover of Oasis’s debut single Supersonic is included in the sale

Evening Standard

"If you break the song down, it's really not that original. But I thank God every day that I wrote it": How one radio play turned the Undertones' intended final release into a brand new beginning

A story of punk rock, John Peel and some misspelt graffiti

Louder

‘We were banging our heads against a wall – the wall won’: the genius pop and tragic demise of Boys Wonder

They swaggered into the late 1980s, a potent brew of punk, glam and classic rock. But they went nowhere, then had to watch as their recipe conquered the charts. Now they’ve returned – so are they looking back in anger?

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Madonna: evolution of the zeitgeist-capturing dance diva

Pushing boundaries, rejecting social approval and taking charge of her career, the sensational star still courts controversy at 65

The Guardian - UK

Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch: ‘Songs tumble out like dreams – you can’t control them’

The band’s leader reveals the gig that changed it all, why launderettes are central in his life and how he found God while on the dole

The Guardian - UK

Andy Rourke: “If I wasn’t eating or in the bath, I had a bass in my hand. I played it constantly”

In this interview from 2016, the late low-end legend reflects on an influential career with The Smiths and beyond, why the Fender P-Bass won his heart, and how he developed his distinct playing style

Guitar World

Seymour Stein: Mogul who discovered some of music’s greats

Stein was a powerhouse executive who brought names such as Madonna and Talking Heads into global stardom

The Independent UK

Seymour Stein obituary

Music executive and co-founder of Sire Records who launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and the Ramones

The Guardian - UK

The 'little bit crazy' record exec who signed Madonna 'changed and shaped' her world

Madonna has paid tribute to Seymour Stein, who signed the iconoclastic artist, recognizing the record executive as one of the most influential men in her life.

Los Angeles Times

Seymour Stein, record executive who signed up Madonna, dead at 80

Seymour Stein founded Sire Records and helped launch the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and the Pretenders. He co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.

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Appreciation: Seymour Stein, dead at 80, discovered the Ramones, Madonna, many more: ‘I never believed in press for myself’

SAN DIEGO — Seymour Stein was never a household name to most music fans before his Sunday death from cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 80. But he certainly was to the Ramones, the Talking Heads, Madonna, Ice-T, Depeche Mode and the dozens of other artists Stein signed…

The Independent UK

Seymour Stein, Sire Records executive who signed Talking Heads and Madonna, dies aged 80

Known as a tastemaker of the 1970s music scene, Stein also worked with The Pretenders, Ice T, The Smiths, and Aphex Twin

Louder

Famed record company executive Seymour Stein dead at 80

Seymour Stein founded Sire Records and signed Ramones, Talking Heads, Pretenders, Madonna, The Cure, Depeche Mode and many more

WEKU

Seymour Stein, the record executive who signed Madonna, is dead at 80

Seymour Stein, who helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005, died of cancer in Los Angeles, according to a statement by his family.

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Wales Online

Seymour Stein, the music executive who discovered Madonna, dies aged 80

Sire Records co-founder also put Talking Heads and The Ramones on their way to stardom

The Independent UK

Seymour Stein, record exec who signed up Madonna, dead at 80

Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, has died at age 80

Daily Mirror

Seymour Stein, music exec who discovered Madonna and Talking Heads, dies

Seymour Stein, 80, who helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005, died of cancer in Los Angeles

The Guardian - AU

Seymour Stein, music mogul who discovered Madonna, Talking Heads and more, dies aged 80

Influential executive co-founded Sire Records and signed Lou Reed, the Ramones and introduced the Smiths and the Cure to the US

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