My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
AHMET ERTEGUNMy father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk.
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I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi’s apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.
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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it’d kill me.
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I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.
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At a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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