Ertegun was to popular music what the late Lamar Hunt was to professional football--a visible, yet modest man whose achivements are nothing short of incalculable.
Without Ertegun, much of modern music as we know it today would simply not exist. In fact, the music he popularized by forming Atlantic Records in 1947 laid the foundation for the rock n' roll revolution of the 1950's.
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