Ahmet Ertegun: the Turkish 'hipster dandy' who made mucho music and moolah with Atlantic Records

Post-Gazette Sunday 27th November, 2011

Robert Greenfield conjures an era in which music was a progressive cultural and economic force, twining the extraordinary story of Ahmet Ertegun's life with the evolution of pop. Not only does the title of this rich biography have a subtitle, it has a sub-subtitle: "Behind the Music at Atlantic Records with Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, and the Rollin...

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