Genger Baker Research Paper

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How drugs affect Ahmet Ertegun and Genger Baker individually?
Genger Baker, born on August 19, 1939, although regarded as the world greatest drummer, he rocks the world of rock music as the best ever-craziest musician off the stage. His life as a rock star led him to be hooked on heroin in the early 1960s. Baker was never doomed to live in one place. He started foreign adventuring that was brought about by heroin addiction. He could not do anything unless he is under the influence of drugs. Baker sometimes got involved in selling heroin, a business he learned in the London clubs. Moreover, the influence of heroin addiction made him travel to Africa in an intention to quit drugs. This occurred after the death of his colleague Jimi Hendrix, who died in a road accident in 1971.
Baker narrates how he went to Africa and got off drugs after a couple of years although this was his most difficult time he has never endured. Sometimes the effects were too high that he could get back on the habit again. He says he tried over 29 times without succeeding to get from the addiction, but it was not until 1981 when he travelled to Italy that he was able to get rid of the heroin addiction. He went to live in a little …show more content…

He was brought up in a practicing Muslim family in Istanbul and grew as a practicing Muslim. When his father moved to Washington as an ambassador to the United States, Ertegun would fall in love with black music after seeing it performed by Duke Ellington’s band in London. He later joined the black music industry and found himself carried away by drugs, which made him engage himself, a lot in sex with women. He could not stay with one woman, as he believed a man of his status is not of one woman. Women and drugs were his weaknesses; he could not do without them. Ertugun did not have respect for women, and he would have sex with every artist he comes