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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A funeral director says he's prepared for lines around the block for a public viewing of blues legend B.B. King in Las Vegas.
King died May 14 at age 89, and the open-casket event from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at Palm South Jones Mortuary begins a week-long series of memorials.
Mortuary manager Matt Phillips says viewers can file past King's casket, but there'll be a strict no-photos rule.
King's daughter, Shirley King, is hosting a Friday night musical tribute at the Brooklyn Bowl on the Las Vegas Strip.
A Saturday family-and-friends service is set at a Las Vegas chapel.
A procession next Wednesday will mark the King of the Blues' return to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, before a final road trip to Indianola, Mississippi, and burial May 30.
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