United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Starrs, Chris2006-02-17Encyclopedia article about Alex Cooley. Alex Cooley has been called "the unofficial mayor of Atlanta music" and credited as the man who brought rock and roll to Atlanta. In his thirty-five-year career as a concert promoter, Cooley has put on thousands of shows, bringing to his hometown almost every major musical act in the world for millions of music fans. He has owned and operated some of the city's legendary rock music nightclubs, in addition to founding the Music Midtown festival in 1994.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Promoters--Georgia--AtlantaBusinessmen--Georgia--AtlantaBusinesspeople--Georgia--AtlantaMusic trade--Georgia--AtlantaCooley, Alex, 1939-Alex Cooley (1939-2015)Text