08.15.2008 2:53 pm
Legendary record man Jerry Wexler dies
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jerry Wexler, the legendary record man and music producer died today at the age of 91. Wexler was a music business pioneer who produced the likes of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett and Willie Nelson. As co-head of Atlantic Records from 1953 to ‘75, he and his partner Ahmet Ertegun grew the small R&B label into a major record company. At his core, he was simply a record collector, he said.
Read Rolling Stone’s profile here.
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