Jagger leads tributes to Ertegun

Mick Jagger has led tributes to music mogul Ahmet Ertegun, who died at the age of 83 on Thursday .

The founding chairman of Atlantic Records never recovered after sustaining a head injury in a fall backstage at a Rolling Stones concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on 29 October.

The band's frontman Jagger says: "He was a marvellous man, very witty, a great raconteur who lived a full social and business life spanning 50 years of popular music.

"He will be fondly remembered by all who knew him and I will personally miss our warm and long friendship."

Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine, also paid tribute to Ertegun, saying: "Ahmet was perhaps the most revered, respected figure in American popular music of the modern era."

Ertegun will be buried at a private ceremony in his native Turkey. A memorial service will be conducted in New York in the New Year.