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Music Legend Jerry Wexler Dies
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Music industry legend
Jerry Wexler
, who kick-started his career as a
Billboard
journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of
Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin while a partner at
Atlantic Records, has died at the age of 91 at his home in Siesta Key,
Fla.
Read the full story at Billboard:
Industry Legend Jerry Wexler Dies At 91