On the track "Folding Chairs" off her new album, "Far" (Sire Records) Spektor imitates the sound a dolphin makes.

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He later co-founded the influential Sire Records label, discovered Blondie at CBGB and produced records for the Go-Go's, Link Wray and others.

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The band soon found a fan in legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel and were then signed to the major record label Sire Records by Seymour Stein, the man responsible for signing Madonna a few years later.

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