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Tower Records Founder Russ Solomon Has Died At Age 92

Solomon turned a modest record shop in Sacramento, Calif. into a world-spanning empire at the height of the CD era. He died on Sunday night at age 92.
On top of the world: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon above his Sacramento, Calif., store in 1989

Russ Solomon, the founder of the enormously influential and widely beloved Tower Records chain, has died at age 92.

His son, Michael Solomon, on Monday that his father died of an apparent heart attack on Sunday evening

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