“who loved”: Ibid.
“the point”: Ibid.
“I said”: Ibid.
“I explained”: Ibid.
“there was”: Ibid.
“and literally”: Ibid.
“That was”: Ibid.
“the earnings”: Ibid.
“Jerry and”: Ibid.
“Ahmet”: Ibid.
“has its”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“I have”: Ibid.
“My end”: Ibid.
FOURTEEN: HELPLESSLY HOPING
“Jerry Wexler”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, April 22, 2003, AE Archive.
“Here’s a”: Nash.
“It was”: Ibid.
“We all”: Ibid.
“In the”: Goodman.
“were morally”: Zimmer and Diltz, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“was really”: Ibid.
“reached in”: Nash.
“Ahmet was”: Stigwood.
“was that”: Zimmer and Diltz, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
“because we”: Ibid.
“King David”: Goodman.
“the rudiments”: King, The Operator.
“rockoids”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“Get the”: King, The Operator.
“My God”: Lewis, Academy All the Way.
“love at first”: Ibid.
“Our relationship”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“he was”: Lewis, Academy All the Way.
“Clive said”: Ibid.
“Ahmet knew”: Goodman.
“They made”: AE, Author Interview, 3/11/88.
“Look, I”: Clive Davis with Willwerth, Clive.
“The group”: Ibid.
“Ahmet stole”: Goodman.
“That’s pretty”: Lewis, Academy All the Way.
“Ahmet, you must”: Ibid.
“Ahmet, you gotta”: Stills, RS staff interview.
“Yessir, we’re”: Sander, Trips.
Music from: Ibid.
“Guess they”: Ibid.
“This guy”: Nash.
“At that”: Ibid.
“Everybody is”: Sander, Trips.
“Did you”: Nash.
“They’re going”: King, The Operator.
“Absolutely, there”: Nash.
“We ought”: King, The Operator.
“But, Ahmet”: Ibid.
“Neil and”: Nash.
“concert price”: Sander, Trips.
“and family”: http://garyburdenforrtwerk.com/archives/51.
“beautiful paper”: Ibid.
“a family-operated”: Ibid.
“Fucking artist”: Burden.
“That group”: Sander, Trips.
“Paul McCartney”: Ibid.
“That’s a”: Holzman, lefsetz.com/wordpress.
“I wonder”: Sander, Trips.
“Who is”: King, The Operator.
“really drunk”: McDonough, Shakey.
“Neil”: Ibid.
“Ahmet’s here?”: Ibid.
“All right!”: Ibid.
“CSN signed”: Nash.
“What’s the”: Author Interview (confidential).
“loved him”: Ibid.
“always respected”: Ibid.
“complaining bitterly”: Ibid.
“You fucking”: Ibid.
“That was”: Ibid.
“the sound”: Blackwell.
“The key”: Ibid.
“popped”: Ibid.
“for no”: Ibid.
“because we”: Ibid.
“thought”: Ibid.
“this little”: Stone.
“Stevie Winwood”: Ibid.
“sounded like”: AE, The Charlie Rose Show, 2/21/05, AE Archive.
“there was”: Ibid.
“Wilson”: Ibid.
“My guitarist”: Ibid.
“this kid”: Ibid.
“You really”: Smith and Fink, Off the Record.
“He’s fabulous”: Ibid.
“So Stigwood”: Ibid.
“I took”: Stigwood.
“He wanted”: Ibid.
“pretended he”: Ibid.
“Just coincidentally”: Ibid.
“and put”: Ibid.
“It was”: Ibid.
“utterly amazed”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“in terms”: Ibid.
“musicians”: Ibid.
“dropped a”: Stigwood.
“Basically”: Ibid.
“Cream was”: Wenner, “Rolling Stone Interview with Phil Spector.”
“We were”: Stigwood.
“Look, I’ve”: Bruck, Master of the Game.
“You mean”: Ibid.
“Yeah, man”: Ibid.
“who or”: Newsham, Once in a Lifetime.
“Give us”: Bruck, Master of the Game.
“particularly knew”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“got a”: Ibid.
“he just”: Ibid.
“So they”: Ibid.
“hotheaded”: Ibid.
“I’m a”: Ibid.
“Well”: Ibid.
“Remember you”: Ibid.
“Sheldon”: Holzman.
“That’s the”: Ibid.
“played his”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“a hell”: Ibid.
“thick Americans”: Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods.
“the exact”: Atlantic Press Release, www.ledzeppelin.com.
“shaken hands”: Blackwell.
“It was”: Ibid.
“I signed”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“I went”: Carson.
“the Ingram”: Ibid.
“Having worked”: Curbishley.
“Even though”: Robinson, Author Interview.
“in the”: Curbishley.
“Then gradually”: Ibid.
“Zeppelin was”: Carson.
“Zeppelin had”: Medious.
“the wickedest”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley.
“a misunderstood genius”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleskine_House.
“Ahmet and”: Medious.
“Ahmet had”: Curbishley.
“Ahmet was”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“throw out”: Ibid.
“It all”: Curbishley.
“Page was”: Ibid.
“When Grant”: Ibid.
“The lifestyle”: Ibid.
“Right in”: Poole, “Lush Life.”
FIFTEEN: ROMANCING THE STONES
“It was”: Smith and Fink, Off the Record.
“the most”: AE, Author Interview, 11/72.
“We had”: Ibid.
“Ahmet got”: Rudge.
“Mick and”: Krasnow.
“was in”: Chess.
“We talked”: Ibid.
“I used”: Greenberg.
“marvelous relationship”: AE, Author Interview, 11/72.
“a terrific”: Ibid.
“all the color”: Wade, “The Godfather of Rock and Roll.”
“Ahmet had”: Holzman, Author Interview.
“very deliberately”: Holzman, Follow the Music.
“Mick”: Ibid.
“I have”: Holzman, Author Interview.
“Ahmet was”: Holzman, Follow the Music.
“Columbia was”: Clive Davis with Willwerth, Clive.
“a staggering”: Ibid.
“I think”: Richards, Author Interview.
“Whenever I”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“I felt”: Chess.
“I think”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“a very”: Johns.
“was struggling”: Ibid.
“It was”: Wade, “The Godfather of Rock and Roll.”
“During this”: Rudge.
“I don’t”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“It is”: Ibid.
“Ahmet said”: Gefffen, Author Interview
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“Wexler was”: Cornyn with Scanlon, Exploding.
“I was”: Greenberg.
“I’m signing”: Ibid.
“the odd”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“France is”: Ibid.
“It didn’t”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“You’re not”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“We have”: Ibid.
“If we”: Ibid.
“Ahmet is”: Ibid.
“That was”: Ibid.
“We are”: Ibid.
“I know”: Faithfull with Dalton, Faithfull.
“There’s only”: Ibid.
“some guarantee”: Ibid.
“We brought”: Mica Ertegun.
“I was”: AE, Author Interview, 11/72.
“standing there”: Pompili.
“Keith was”: Flom.
“was keen”: Wyman, Rolling with the Stones.
“We had”: Richards, RS staff interview.
“I was with”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, May 1, 2003, AE Archive.
“It was”: Rudge.
“Mick and Keith”: AE, Author Interview, 11/72.
“a good”: Ibid.
“It’s one”: Ibid.
“Mick Jagger?”: Ibid.
“Ahmet brought”: Rudge.
“There were”: AE, Author Interview, 11/72.
“Right now”: Greenfield, S.T.P.
“intuition told”: Capote.
“would not”: Ibid.
“they were”: Ibid.
“Ahmet and”: Ibid.
“lolled in”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“She never”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, March 14, 2003.
“Oh well”: Frears, “Gotham Satyricon.”
“Dollink, ven”: Greenfield, S.T.P.
“And when”: Hughes.
“It’s encompassing”: Lichtenstein, “Mick Jagger, 29.”
“a Felliniesque”: Ibid.
“like a”: Ibid.
“It was”: Medious.
“It’s a”: Lichtenstein, “Mick Jagger, 29.”
“Society finally”: Greenfield, S.T.P.
“Ahmet and”: Rudge.
“a very close”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“And what”: Ibid.
“Because we”: Sheffield, “How the Rolling Stones Got their Bitch Back.”
“I suppose”: Wyman, Rolling with the Stones.
“to please”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“a stupid”: Ibid.
“supposed to”: Ibid.
“I said”: Ibid.
“I thought”: Ibid.
“had no”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Ahmet”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“Ahmet, you’re”: Ibid.
“vulgar and”: Wyman, Rolling with the Stones.
“an insult”: Ibid.
“We do”: Ibid.
“everybody you”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Ahmet was”: Rudge.
“He used”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“like my”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“a great”: Ibid.
“and say”: Ibid.
“just go”: Ibid.
“Scared to”: Ibid.
“a sea”: Ibid.
“I thought”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“quite to”: AE, “What’d I Say.”
“Oh man”: Ibid.
“started to”: Ibid.
“On the”: Ibid.
“And suddenly”: Ibid.
“we all”: Ibid.
“That man”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“pushy”: Ibid.
“I shouted”: Ibid.
“big trouble”: Ibid.
“a thousand”: Ibid.
“Ahmet had”: Jerry Wexler, Author Interview.
“I don’t”: Cornyn with Scanlon, Exploding.
“Familiarity breeds”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“It always”: Rudge.
“Mick is”: Ibid.
SIXTEEN: THE BOY WONDER
“I was”: Geffen, RS staff interview.
“It’s about”: Morris.
“He plays”: Goodman.
“I’m telling”: Ibid.
“Ahmet looked”: Geffen, RS staff interview.
“I thought”: King.
“kind of”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“We’re going”: King.
“be number”: Ibid.
“Ahmet was involved”: Geffen, RS staff interview.
“Ahmet was unbelievably”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“very congenial”: Holzman, Author Interview.
“In many”: Ibid.
“We bought”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, May 1, 2003, AE Archive.
“regarded as”: Smith, Author Interview.
“They lined”: Ibid.
“OK, David”: King.
“Well, if”: Ibid.
“You stole”: Ibid.
“You’re an”: Ibid.
“You agent!”: Ibid.
“enormous temper”: Smith, Author Interview.
“We can’t”: King.
“I’m outta”: Ibid.
“I couldn’t”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“I had”: Smith, Author Interview.
“What happened”: Ibid.
“Jerry was”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“I was”: Horowitz, unidentified article, AE Archive.
“David said”: AE, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, May 1, 2003, AE Archive.
“We have”: King.
“been frightened”: Ibid.
“Jerry Wexler”: Ibid.
“mutiny was”: Ibid.
“One day”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“How can”: King.
“Now come”: Ibid.
“This is”: Ibid.
“much more”: Greenberg.
“Mel goes”: Ibid.
“I don’t”: Ibid.
“Steve, I’ve”: Ibid.
“The next”: Ibid.
“So then”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Ahmet never”: Ibid.
“By the”: Ibid.
“another lady”: Ibid.
“There’s got”: Ibid.
“for a”: Ibid.
“beautiful in”: Ibid.
“Look at”: Ibid.
“David, what”: Ibid.
“Of course”: Ibid.
“We never”: Ibid.
“That was”: Ibid.
“one of”: Stevenson, “Geffen Records Sold to MCA.”
“When I”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“Are you”: King.
“couldn’t slip”: Greenberg.
“viewed as”: Ibid.
“For me”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“The problem”: Smith, Author Interview.
“Under no”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“Man, you”: Ibid.
“One of”: Horowitz, unidentified article, AE Archive.
“When I”: Wexler, Author Interview.
“Ahmet sees”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“He Meant”: Ibid.
“There was”: Wexler, Author Interview.
“Jerry called”: Hochberg.
“they didn’t”: Paul Wexler.
SEVENTEEN: THE YEARS WITH ROSS
“At the”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“an extremely”: Ian Frazier, Author Interview.
“style was”: Hertzberg, “Swift.”
“was the”: Ibid.
“jazzy, telegraphic”: Ibid.
“as a cultural”: Ibid.
“George went”: Ian Frazier, Author Interview.
“blue suit”: Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents.
“looked like”: Ibid.
“I knew”: Ibid.
“Ahmet, may”: Ibid.
“I would”: Ibid.
“beat the shit”: Wexler, Author Interview.
“five or six”: AE, Author Interview, 3/11/88.
“took one”: Ibid.
“minor record”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“a striking”: Ibid.
“Yah. They”: Ibid.
“But I”: Ibid.
“one at”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“looked ravaged”: Ibid.
“Such a”: Ibid.
“a burlesque”: Ibid.
“A lot”: Ibid.
“What do”: Greenberg.
“There was”: Ian Frazier, Author Interview.
“and closed”: Ibid.
“Ahmet had”: Kincaid.
“I wouldn’t”: Ibid.
“When it”: Ibid.
“First and”: Ian Frazier, Author Interview.
“He must”: Trow, “Profiles.”
“We’ll give”: Ibid.
“sound business”: Ibid.
“If you’re”: Ibid.
“chintzy”: Ibid.
“You know”: Ibid.
“There was”: Ibid.
“You’re responsible”: King.
“Don’t be”: Ibid.
“And he didn’t”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“Oh, David”: Wenner, Author Interview.
“who liked”: Ibid.
“wound up”: Ibid.
“had a huge”: Ibid.
“He said”: Geffen, Author Interview.
“simply get”: Ibid.
“a metropolis”: Wolcott, “Splendor in the Grit.”
“the tourists”: Ibid.
“getting back”: Ibid.
“I like”: New York magazine, title and author unknown, January 15, 1988.
“Ahmet was”: Horowitz, unidentified article, AE Archive.
“started lighting”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“I used”: Morris.
“a ten-course”: Wexler and Ritz, Rhythm and the Blues.
“an apparently”: Tobias, “The Middle-Aged Turk of the Pop Music Business.”
“favorite artist”: Ibid.
“Where do”: Bennetts, “Devil in a Bespoke Suit.”
“And he”: Hughes.
“He was”: Howar.
“For Ahmet”: Ibid.
“He is”: Wade and Picardie, Music Man.
“Clever as”: Horowitz, unidentified article, AE Archive.
“Steve had”: Emmett, Author Interview.
“So I”: Ibid.
“no shares”: Ibid.
“at a”: Ibid.
“made a”: Ibid.
“Talk to”: Ibid.
“Ahmet wanted”: Horowitz, unidentified article, AE Archive.
“Steve gave”: Emmett, Author Interview.
“Ahmet would”: Greenberg.
“I said”: Ibid.
“a major”: Ibid.
“He said”: Ibid.
“called Steve”: Ibid.
“Is Ahmet”: Ibid.
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