Mick Jagger, Phil Collins and Eric Clapton are some of the music royalty who attended a memorial in New York City for the legendary music magnate Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records.

The 83-year-old record giant died in December, after suffering a brain injury when he fell at a Rolling Stones show in October.

Ahmet Ertegun, seen here at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, died in December after hitting his head in a fall at a Rolling Stones concert.
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Ertegun's influence in the world of music is enormous — he helped usher blues, jazz and R&B music into the mainstream, launching the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones, among many others.

The company is now part of Warner Music Group, and represents artists such as Kid Rock, James Blunt and Missy Elliott.

The son of a Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic in 1947. The label's roster would eventually include the likes of Cream, Led Zeppelin, ABBA, Sonny and Cher, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Many who knew him say he loved to socialize with people of different backgrounds, a large part of his success at garnering a variety of musical acts. 

Ertegun's love of music began with jazz. He once said that he and his brother, the late Nesuhi, used to hang around Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in the clubs of Washington, D.C. Nesuhi would go on to produce jazz acts such as Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman.

The memorial, which took place Tuesday at Lincoln Centre, featured performances from Collins, Clapton, Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, Kid Rock, Ben E. King, Wynton Marsalis, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Bette Midler hosted the event while Jagger paid tribute in a speech.

Ertegun was buried in a private ceremony in his native Turkey.