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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

Ahmet Ertegun

I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Celebrity Gotten Kind Lawyer Mess Other
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Biography Film Music Singer Voice
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
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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Bottle Doctor Drink Occur Used Wine Year
There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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Another Eric Great People Survive Surviving Talent West
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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Condition Country Industrial Islamic Man Revolution Thing
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.
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Big Matter Next Recorded Song Write Writing
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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Business Career Consider Dearly Great Miss People Proud Record Singer
I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
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Magic Running Singer Start Studio Track
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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Black Blue Church Like Out People Singing
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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Flop Greatest Hit Seven Six Think Thinking Write Writing
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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Country Dignity Greatness Little Music Recognition

I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

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