**FILE** Atlantic Records co-chairman and founder Ahmet Ertegun poses in the label's New York offices in this file photo from May 17, 2001. Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said Thursday Dec. 14, 2006. He was 83. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper-File)