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 enlarge | Author: Ahmet Ertegun
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 581811
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.6
Dimensions (in): 14.6 x 10.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 1566490480
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.49
EAN: 9781566490481
ASIN: 1566490480
Publication Date: June 15, 2001
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Finally.......It was worth the wait! August 26, 2001
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Ahmet Ertegun has to be one of the true legends of popular music in the 20th century. When I first heard that Ertegun had penned the story of Atlantic Records 2 to 3 years ago, I immediately searched it out. But for some reason publication was delayed over two years. Alas it's here. This huge book has everything. First hand oral historical accounts on the birth of R&B with Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler, Otis, the Drifters through the evolution of 60's Rock with Cream, the Stones and Zepplin. The photos are spectatcular and Ertegun's own accounts insightful.....A brilliant man with impeccable taste. He may be the hippest son of a Turkish ambassador to ever found a legendary record label. While I personally can do without the more recent sections dealing with 80's and 90's music (how can you include Jewel with the likes of Ray Charles and Ben E. King?), this book is so huge (almost 10 lbs.) that the majority of the book far exceeds all expectations. At a time when lightweight books by airheaded groupies who played abolutely no role in the creation of a musical revolution somehow make their way into publication, this book stands alone as a classic account of a time when the musicians really were artist who paid their dues, song writers were stylists, and goood taste and genuine talent not only mattered, but actually sold records. If you are a true music fan, this book is the next best thing to being present at the birth of the R&B. One more suggestion, get the Atlantic R&B box set. If I were allowed to keep but one body of work from my music collection, this would be the one. It is the Rosetta Stone of modern R&B.
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