Doc McGhee

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"Doc" McGhee is an American music manager, best known for working with KISS, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe. The latter two groups experienced their rise to stardom under his management. He has also worked with Hootie & the Blowfish.

He currently appears in a reality series for VH1 called "SuperGroup" along with Scott Ian, Ted Nugent, Evan Seinfeld, Sebastian Bach and Jason Bonham.

Doc McGhee has had a life filled with highs and lows. Aside from managing several successful musical acts, McGhee was "arrested on a charge of assisting to smuggle 40,000 lbs of marijuana into North Carolina from Colombia in 1982" [1] and "has previously been busted for bringing a shipment of cocaine into the state of Louisiana." More recently, due to his multiple drug trafficking convictions [2], McGhee, in an effort to clean up his reputation, formed an anti-drugs foundation called "Make A Difference Foundation."

McGhee has also been accused of stealing other artists, namely his stunningly unsuccessful artist, Bonnie McKee, who had signed a multi-million dollar deal with Warner, saw her career developing quickly, only to abandon her original management and sign with McGhee. Since that signing in 2004, Bonnie McKee's work [3] has gone largely unnoticed.