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Dec 1, 2015 · By Tony Paris Tuesday July 12, 2022 05:53 PM EDT. Peter Conlon, president of Live Nation’s Georgia/Alabama regional office and Cooley’s former partner, recalls the days when music agents wouldn’t book their artists in Atlanta. “Alex went to New York and he sold these people on the idea that there was a market here and people wanted to ...
Jan 8, 2016 · Atlanta Music Scene | Jan 8, 2016. By Melissa Ruggieri, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. On the eve of the Alex Cooley “Celebration of Life” event at The Tabernacle , Peter Conlon,...
Dec 13, 2017 · Georgia Sen. Jeff Mullis and other elected officials will be on hand to honor the late Alex Cooley and his business partner, Live Nation Atlanta President Peter Conlon, with the renaming of...
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Dec 1, 2015 · “When (Alex) started, acts weren’t playing in the South - they thought of us as a bunch of redneck racists,” said Peter Conlon Tuesday afternoon as he emotionally recalled his longtime business...
Alex Cooley and Peter Conlon Papers. The audiovisual materials related to this collection are housed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives.
Dec 1, 2015 · “Alex is responsible for rock music coming not only to Atlanta, but to the Southeast,” says Peter Conlon, president of Live Nation’s Georgia/Alabama regional office and former partner to Cooley. “When he started, agents in New York thought of us as a bunch of racist rednecks and wouldn’t book shows here.
Jul 20, 2011 · Cooley later launched the Electric Ballroom and the Roxy, started Music Midtown with partner Peter Conlon (now president of Live Nation Atlanta), and was instrumental in saving the Fox. Last...
