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Article: My Ray of sunshine The Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun liked Ray Charles so much, he signed him twice. He tells Pierre Perrone the new biopic is broadly right - though the singer didn't call him 'Omelette'.
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- January 26, 2005
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The music-industry mogul Ahmet Ertegun knows talent. He signed
Bobby Darin, Cream, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones - the latter,
famously, in his sleep in 1970, after nodding off at the Whisky a Go-
Go in Los Angeles, while talking to Mick Jagger into the small hours.
He distributed the Stax label and helped Aretha Franklin to become
the Queen of Soul.But now, just two years shy of celebrating the 50th
anniversary of Atlantic records, the label he co-founded, and a few
days away from his 82nd birthday, Ertegun maintains that Ray Charles
was the most talented musician he ever worked with."Ray invented his
own sound and style and approach," Ertegun says. "His whole being was
in his music. ...