“I loved them both so much and I was with them both on the days they passed,” says Mikeal. Today, the Rainbow Bar & Grill is run by Mario’s son Mikeal, and his grandson, Mike Jr., who had the idea for the Lemmy statue. In 2017, owner Mario Maglieri, also known as “The King of the Sunset Strip,” died at age 93, but he was still holding court on the patio until the very end. Mikeal Maglieri and Mike Jr., standing next to the Lemmy Kilmister statue.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign and months of anticipation, a memorial statue in his honor was unveiled in 2016 at his favorite hangout on the back patio. In the last two decades of his life, he was a daily fixture at the Rainbow whenever the band was not on tour, and he was often seen playing the bar’s video poker machine. Lemmy loved the Rainbow so much that he moved to West Hollywood to be closer to it. It was a second home to Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, who passed away in 2015. Notable Regularsĭuring the ’70s and ’80s, there were at least 300 people in the parking lot every single night. During the early 1970s, the word “rainbow” signified peace and freedom, so that’s how it received its name, but it’s still an “homage” to Judy. Many believe the Rainbow was named after Garland, as a tribute to “Over the Rainbow,” but that’s not quite true. The Villa Nova was owned by Allen Dale and film director Vincente Minnelli, who proposed to Judy Garland there. That is where Marilyn Monroe went on a blind date with Joe DiMaggio. It was the Mermaid Club during the 1930s and The Villa Nova restaurant from 1944-1968. Before becoming the Rainbow, the structure had several incarnations.
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