Manager of Stars, Big Fan of Lawsuits

[mjzee]

Herb Cohen managed seminal rock and pop acts of the 1960s and '70s including Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits, and Linda Ronstadt.

But Mr. Cohen's wildest act may have been his own, as a fireplug-shaped music-business eminence with a reputation for litigiousness.

Mr. Cohen, who died March 16 at age 78, was a progenitor of the Los Angeles folk-music scene in the 1950s. His Unicorn Coffee House, where patrons could take a banjo down from the wall and entertain the crowd, was reputedly the first institution of its kind south of San Francisco.

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[Brad]

Sounded like quite a character!