Coury released some of the best selling albums of all time such as the soundtracks of Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Flashdance, and albums such as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction,[1] which earned him the title of the "Vince Lombardi of the record business".

[1] In a career that spanned almost 40 years, Coury helped to develop the careers of artists such as The Beatles, Nat King Cole, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, the Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, Irene Cara, Glen Campbell, Bob Seger, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Cher and Linda Ronstadt.

[2] Albert Eli Coury was born October 21, 1934, to Lebanese parents and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts.

[11] Between 1970 and 1974, he released albums of artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Helen Reddy, Grand Funk Railroad, Pink Floyd, Glen Campbell, Natalie Cole, and others.

[2] The song also became Campbell's largest-selling single and one of his best-known recordings, initially with over 2 million copies sold.

[15] Coury's last signing to Capitol Records was the group Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, made up of former members of The Monkees, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who had written several Monkees hits.

He then chose the song "Jet" as the second single, which helped make the album the most successful of McCartney's solo efforts.

[18] 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.

[20] Both soundtracks of Saturday Night Fever and Grease went on to sell more than 30 million copies worldwide each, a record that would not be surpassed until Michael Jackson's Thriller album was released five years later.

Coury also worked extensively with the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton, two of the RSO's flagship artists.

Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, also making it one of the best selling albums of all time.

When Appetite for Destruction was first released in 1987 it was barely noticed and the album just sold 200,000 copies after several months, which made David Geffen close to walking away from the record.