Ahmet Ertegun (1923 - 2006)

Ahmet Ertegun, Founding Chairman of Atlantic Records, passed away last week in New York City at the age of 83. Ahmet's achievements over the past six decades are legendary. From a small rented office with two battered desks and a grand piano, Ahmet and Herb Abramson launched a label that would ultimately shape and reshape the course of 20th Century music, decade after decade. 'We wanted to make the kind of records that we would want to buy,' Ahmet once recalled. 'We were having great fun, and never imagined that we would be able to make a real living out of doing what we loved so much.' And for nearly sixty years, that's what Ahmet did—signing, recording, and developing talented artists whose brilliant creative work would come to define entire genres, from R&B to Jazz to Rock & Roll to Pop—and inspire generations to come.
(από το mailing list της atlantic).
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