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Ahmet Ertegun, 1923-2006

Andy Gill, The Word, February 2007

AS MUSIC BUSINESS people go, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun was a giant amongst pygmies, a mover and shaker whose colossal impact on the course of 20th century popular music was so significant that the main exhibition hall of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame would be named after him.

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