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Article: Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun dies at 83
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- December 15, 2006
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NEW YORK - Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the
founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B
of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British
rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
Ertegun remained connected to the music scene until his last days -
it was at an Oct. 29 concert by the Rolling Stones at the Beacon
Theatre in New York where Ertegun fell, suffered a head injury and
was hospitalized. He later slipped into a coma.
"He was in a coma and expired today with his family at his
bedside," said Dr. Howard A. Riina, Ertegun's neurosurgeon at New
York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.