By Jem Aswad, Variety | Howie Klein, a veteran record executive, radio DJ and political activist who was a top executive in the Warner Bros. Records family during its golden era of the 1980s and early ‘90s, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer, according to a social media post from his sister. He was 77.
Most notably, he was Seymour Stein’s no. 2 at Sire Records during the label’s peak era – a time when the label had everyone from the Smiths and Depeche Mode to Madonna and Lou Reed on its roster – and later was president of Warner’s Reprise label from 1989 to 2001. He was a strong and vocal presence in the music industry’s anti-censorship efforts in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s and focused on political activism in his later years.
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