Photos: Music Midtown founder Alex Cooley through the years

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Photos: Music Midtown founder Alex Cooley through the years

Atlanta concert promoter Alex Cooley has died at 74. Pictured, Cooley, Andrew Hingley and Dave Mattingly discuss promotional material during a meeting at Eddie's Attic in Decatur on Tuesday Sept. 10, 2013. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

Alex Cooley, right, and Charlie Loudermilk, left, a developer and Aaron Rents millionaire, pose in front of the main stage of the new Buckhead Theater, formerly the Roxy in Atlanta on May 24, 2010. Cooley came out of retirement from growing a garden in North Georgia to work with Loudermilk on the Buckhead Theater. Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com

Alex Cooley on one of the sites of the 2004 Music Midtown. (LOUIE FAVORITE/ AJC STAFF)

Alex Cooley talks about the 1998 Music Midtown Festival. (JOEY IVANSCOI/staff).

Alex Cooley, the promoter of the Music Midtown Festival poses on the roof of the building where his office is, with part of the Mid-town skyline behind him in 1997. (RICH MAHAN/Staff)

Alex Cooley, co-owner of Concert Promotions/Southern Promotions comforts long time employee Rythie Marshall (left) following a fire that gutted the business. The company lost numerous records and functioning capabilities on some 20 computers.

Concert promoter Alex Cooley holds a signed poster of the first Annual Music Midtown at Roxy Theatre in Buckhead in 1995.

Alex Cooley in the balcony of the refurbished Roxy Theater in 1992. (MARLENE KARAS/AJC staff)

Alex Cooley lost his Capri venture in 1978. (JOE BENTON/AJC staff)

Alex Cooley at the Fox Theatre on New Year's Eve. (LOUIE FAVORITE/AJC staff)

Alex Cooley poses in 1976. (Jerome McClendon/AJC staff)

Alex Cooley poses in 1976. (Jerome McClendon/AJC staff)

Alex Cooley listens to Fire Lt. T.L. Laseter as he talks to a member of the "Stomp" company in 1971. (MARION CREWE/AJC staff) 1971

Alex Cooley poses in an undated photo. (RICK DIAMOND PHOTOGRAPHY)

Alex Cooley at the 1973 Champagne Jam at Grant Field. File photo: (LOUIE FAVORITE/AJC staff)

Alex Cooley (left) and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Clear Channel

Alex Cooley reads over an anti-pop festival bill passed by the Georgia House in 1971.

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Atlanta concert promoter Alex Cooley has died at 74. Pictured, Cooley, Andrew Hingley and Dave Mattingly discuss promotional material during a meeting at Eddie's Attic in Decatur on Tuesday Sept. 10, 2013. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

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