| 18th December 2006 08:33 PM |
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| texile |
Hundreds Mourn Atlantic Records' Founder
The Associated Press
Monday, December 18, 2006; 3:44 PM
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Kid Rock joined Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and hundreds of other mourners Monday at the funeral of Ahmet Ertegun, the co-founder of Atlantic Records.
Ertegun _ who counted Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones among the stars signed to his label _ died on Dec. 14 at age 83, days after falling and suffering a head injury at a Rolling Stones concert in New York City. He later slipped into a coma.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, third left, and Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler, fourth left, stand behind the Turkish flag wrapped coffin of Ahmet Ertegun during his funeral ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 18, 2006. 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 on Dec. 14 days after falling and suffering a head injury at a Rolling Stones concert in New York city. He later slipped in a coma. He was 83. (AP Photo/Osman Orsal) (Osman Orsal - AP)
The Turkish-born Ertegun was buried at an ancestral family site near a Muslim religious lodge on the Asian side of the city following a religious service.
Gul praised Ertegun as a man who had done much to promote Turkey's image.
"Nobody has, or ever will, do what he did for Turkey in the United States," Gul said. "He has left a large void."
"The one thing he loved more than music was Turkey," the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Lyor Cohen, chief executive of Warner Music Group, as saying.
Kid Rock said: "I have met many people, been to many places and seen many things, but he was definitely the best," according to Anatolia.
"He could not sing but he was music personified," the agency quoted the singer as saying.
A memorial for Ertegun will be held in New York early next year.
Ertegun, the son of a Turkish ambassador, started collecting records for fun but eventually became one of the music industry's most powerful figures with Atlantic, which he co-founded in 1947.
The label made its name with rhythm and blues by Charles and Big Joe Turner, but later diversified, making Franklin the queen of soul as well as carrying the banner of British rock with the Rolling Stones, Cream and Led Zeppelin, and American pop with Sonny and Cher, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
so kid rock made the trek to turkey but not jagger?
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| 18th December 2006 08:49 PM |
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| glencar |
They're having a memorial service in Manhattan early next year. Jagger might be there. |
| 19th December 2006 02:49 PM |
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| texile |
quote:
glencar wrote:
They're having a memorial service in Manhattan early next year. Jagger might be there.
most likely ...
the image of kid rock in turkey was just funny to me. |
| 19th December 2006 05:31 PM |
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| mrhipfl |
"The one thing he loved more than music was Turkey,"
I can relate... |
| 19th December 2006 05:40 PM |
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| glencar |
Funny... |
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