Curious if you've looked at the book since, and if it stands up. I just borrowed the e-book via the app Libby, which offers free downloads from libraries. I met Ahmet Ertegun once, probably at a Robert Plant party or something, and asked him why he used the name "Nugetre" for the r&b songs he was said to have written for the Clovers, Big Joe Turner, et al. He said it was so his patrician Turkish parents wouldn't know he was a songwriter.
Curious if you've looked at the book since, and if it stands up. I just borrowed the e-book via the app Libby, which offers free downloads from libraries. I met Ahmet Ertegun once, probably at a Robert Plant party or something, and asked him why he used the name "Nugetre" for the r&b songs he was said to have written for the Clovers, Big Joe Turner, et al. He said it was so his patrician Turkish parents wouldn't know he was a songwriter.