“When I first saw the Ramones I said, ‘This is the best band in the world.’ I went up to them after the set and ‘You guys are great! You guys are great!’ That’s all I could say.”

Talking Heads, Television, Blondie, The Ramones, and the birth of punk at CBGB’s.

The 12th (or 13th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

a/k/a The Third (or Fourth) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

‘People tended to view the question in one of three ways: Any song that has the word “summer” in the title; a song that dominated the charts and airplay for a summer; or a song that simply evokes the feeling of summer’

“Siren Song: My Life in Music” explores Seymour Stein’s wild ride through the record industry

‘The leather jacket and Levi’s and Converse was classic, and they knew that. The only thing they’d change was their T-shirt and the socks.’