Seymour Stein can hear the future. He unerringly predicted the next musical trend, then signed the musical act that inevitably became the epitome of that movement. Stein has signed such icons as the Ramones, the Talking Heads and Madonna. Seymour Stein is the co-founder and chairman of Sire Records, the label that put punk and New Wave—not to mention the maverick likes of Madonna—on the map.