LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mario Maglieri, the Hollywood entrepreneur who doubled as a godfather figure to generations of rock stars from the Doors’ Jim Morrison to Guns ‘N Roses’ Axl Rose, has died age 93.
His family says in a statement that Maglieri died Thursday. No cause of death was given.
For decades he ran two of Hollywood’s most popular Sunset Strip nightclubs – the Whiskey A Go Go and Rainbow Bar & Grill.
It was at the venerable Whiskey, which opened in 1964, that the Doors first found a following as the house band.
At the Rainbow, next door to the Roxy, Maglieri would keep musicians in booze and food.