Article: Ahmet Ertegun; Helped Found Atlantic Records

Ahmet Ertegun, 83, 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, died Dec. 14 at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Mr. Ertegun was at an Oct. 29 concert by the Rolling Stones at the Beacon Theatre in New York where he fell, suffered a head injury and was hospitalized. He later slipped into a coma.

Mr. Ertegun, a Turkish ambassador's son, started collecting records for fun but would later became one of the music industry's most powerful figures with Atlantic, which he founded in 1947.

The label first made its ...

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