Robert Coury

Robert Coury

Director/Board Member at VIATRIS INC.

Net worth: 8 M $ as of 2024-02-28

63 year
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Albert Eli "Al" Coury (October 21, 1934 – August 8, 2013) was a 1970s vice-president of American record label Capitol Records. He joined the label in 1957 and rose to the position of vice-president of marketing, sales and promotion. Coury helped develop the careers of many recording artists, including The Beatles, Nat King Cole, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Glen Campbell, Bob Seger, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Cher and Linda Ronstadt.

Coury was important to several solo Beatles releases in the 1970s, particularly Paul McCartney's 1973 album Band On The Run, and John Lennon's 1974 album Walls and Bridges, both of which reached the top of the charts and yielded #1 singles. It was Coury who persuaded McCartney to include the successful single "Helen Wheels" on the US version of Band On The Run (because it was last-minute, the lyrics to the song were not included on the lyric sheet). He then chose the song "Jet" as the second single, which helped make the album the most successful of McCartney's solo efforts.

The following year, Lennon invited Coury to "work his magic" promoting Lennon's Walls and Bridges album. It was Coury who chose the first single, "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night", which became Lennon's first #1 solo hit (and the only one in his lifetime). Coury was also instrumental in the long-awaited release of Lennon's 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll, bartering with producer Phil Spector to retrieve the master tapes from their abandoned 1973 recording sessions.

Coury's last signing to Capitol Records was the group Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, made up of former Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who'd written several Monkees hits. He then left Capitol to become president and co-founder of RSO Records, with Robert Stigwood. At RSO, Coury marketed such hits as the Saturday Night Fever and Grease soundtrack albums, and Eric Clapton's Slowhand. Coury worked extensively with the Bee Gees, RSO's flagship group.

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CompanyDateNumber of sharesValuationValuation date
2023-10-29 632,447 ( 0.05% ) 8 M $ 2024-02-28

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CompaniesPositionStart
VIATRIS INC. Director/Board Member 2023-12-14
Corporate Officer/Principal -
Corporate Officer/Principal 2013-12-31
Robert J Coury Family Foundation Founder -
Chairman -
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MYLAN LABORATORIES LTD Chairman 2009-08-20
Chief Executive Officer 2007-10-01
Coury Consulting LP Chief Executive Officer 2001-12-31
The Coury Financial Group Founder -
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University of Pittsburgh Undergraduate Degree

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