Atlanta Promoter Alex Cooley Dies At 74
ATLANTA, Georgia (CelebrityAccess) — Legendary concert promoter, Alex Cooley, died Tuesday at 74. Cooley began his career in his 20s with the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1969 and it endures in the shows at Eddie’s Attic, the Decatur club that Cooley owned.
The Atlanta International Pop Festival, which Cooley helped produce, brought ’60s icons Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the Staple Singers and others to the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton in July 1969, a year after Cooley presented the Grateful Dead at a free concert in Piedmont Park.
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