Ahmet Ertegun and Various Authors: What’d I Say: The Atlantic Records Story
Bill Millar, unpublished, 2001
THIS IS ONE muthahumping doorstep of a book as big as the Times Atlas and just as heavy. There are 900 photos and 160,000 words mostly from Ahmet Ertegun but with essays from exalted critics like Greil Marcus, will Friedwald and Barney Hoskyns.
Total word count of piece: 656
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