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Dick Alen, William Morris’ Music Head and Longtime Agent for Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Aretha Franklin, Dies at 89

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Chris Willman Music WriterDick Alen, a music agent renowned for a six-decade-plus career that included representing icons like Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, died of natural causes Nov.

27. He was 89.Before Alen retired in 2010, he had spent the last 39 years of his career at what was formerly the William Morris Agency and later William Morris Endeavor.

Starting work there in 1971, he eventual became senior VP and had a five-year stint as head of the agency’s music division, where he was credited with bringing more country, Latin and Contemporary Christian artists to the company.But he had a thriving career for nearly 20 years before he ever joined William Morris.

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