Brendan Mullen was a Scottish nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque.
16 Facts About Brendan Mullen
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Brendan Mullen was born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to Stockport near Manchester, England, when he was eight years old.
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Brendan Mullen spent his early teen years writing for various British music magazines.
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Brendan Mullen worked as a local newspaper journalist at the Barnet Press in the London Borough of Barnet from 1972 to 1973.
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In 1973, Brendan Mullen moved to the United States, where he resided for the remainder of his life.
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Brendan Mullen maintained close links with his family periodically visiting his old home town of Stockport.
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In 1977, Brendan Mullen founded The Masque, a small punk rock club in central Hollywood, California, which existed intermittently from 1977 to 1979.
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In 1983, Brendan Mullen had his first encounter with Anthony Kiedis and Flea, who came into the club with their newly recorded demo tape, demanding Brendan Mullen listen to it.
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Brendan Mullen offered their band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, an opening slot on an upcoming Bad Brains show.
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The band credits Brendan Mullen with being one of their first major supporters and giving them their start.
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Brendan Mullen booked a wider range of performances at the Variety Arts Center downtown in the mid-to-late '80s.
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On October 12,2009, the website Media Bistro reported that Brendan Mullen had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, having suffered a serious stroke.
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At the time of his stroke, Brendan Mullen was celebrating his 60th birthday by traveling through Santa Barbara and Ventura with Kateri Butler, his companion of 16 years.
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One of the neurologists who treated Brendan Mullen stated, 'Sometimes, your number is just up.
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Brendan Mullen had just started working toward US citizenship at the time of his death.
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Brendan Mullen went to rehearsals and informed the band of Mullen's death and without talking, the band quickly started to play music and the song came to the band quickly out of a jam.