Roy Trakin Stu Cohen, a longtime head of promotion for Warner Bros. Records, died on July 20 from esophageal cancer. He was 66.
Cohen had also been suffering from having contracted Covid-19 as well as a fractured hip resulting from a fall, although you’d never know it judging from his always-optimistic Facebook posts about his progress while battling his ailments.Cohen began his music business career in 1973 while still a teenager in the mailroom at Warner Bros.
Records and worked for the label for more than 26 years, leaving in 1999. During that era, the employees who worked there referred to the label as Camelot under the rule of Mo Ostin, Lenny Waronker and other music business titans.A native of Brooklyn, New York, who loved his.
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