Flamboyant British nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow died Thursday after battling lung cancer. He was 77. Publicist Matt Glass said Stringfellow died early in the morning. Stringfellow got his start in the early 1960s booking bands including the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones in his clubs at a time when those bands were not yet world famous. He later opened upscale "gentlemen's clubs" in several cities, including London, where "Stringfellows" has been in operation since 1980.
