Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.
I actually like the song, and Stevie Jackson's Tweet sums up what I'd imagine it would be like as a young man daydreaming of a way to get out of Scotland and see the world when you're heartbroken. There are plenty worse songs in B&S's repertoire. "Roy Walker", "The Blues are Still Blue", "Calculating Bimbo".
"Seymour Stein was written by the one band member of B&S who didn’t actually meet him.
I was working in a restaurant that night and feeling blue that my girl had left the city and left me.
Record company men back then, especially those as eminent as Mr Stein, seemed like fantasy figures that could make all your dreams come true,
The song is a silent plea to Seymour to sort out my personal, emotional mess which was actually pretty unrealistic and unreasonable, looking back at it now. Still I wish him well at the song’s end! SJ x"
