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Dec. 15th, 2006 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersThe news that Ahmet Ertegun has died fills me with sorrow.
It was, I suppose, timely (if that can ever be said) as he presided over the greatest period in recorded music's history, and he leaves an industry in decline. His is an arc of existence that encompasses the birth of youth culture through to the computer-aided death of the music industry: and for a non-performer, he was one of the industry's corporate superstars, along with Berry Gordy and a select few others.
Still too tired, but I'll live as long as I don't fall asleep at the wheel.
Got to catch up on my reading.
Have to practise more.
It was, I suppose, timely (if that can ever be said) as he presided over the greatest period in recorded music's history, and he leaves an industry in decline. His is an arc of existence that encompasses the birth of youth culture through to the computer-aided death of the music industry: and for a non-performer, he was one of the industry's corporate superstars, along with Berry Gordy and a select few others.
Still too tired, but I'll live as long as I don't fall asleep at the wheel.
Got to catch up on my reading.
Have to practise more.
