LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than 300 people were lined up Friday when doors opened for the viewing of blues legend B.B. King.

First through the door was Larry Montano, 61, who had staked out his spot in line more than five hours earlier.

"B.B. King has been an inspiration and blues idol to me for many years," said Montano, who recalled shaking the hand of King after a performance at the Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

He said his favorite songs are "The Thrill Is Gone" and "Why I Sing the Blues."

"He tells a wonderful story and it's got a great blues feel," said Montano of Palmdale, California.

King's daughter Rita Washington greeted fans in line when she arrived.

"Dad is just loving this," she said " This is part of his homecoming."

The viewing Friday began a weeklong series of memorials for King, who died May 14 in Las Vegas at 89. A musical tribute at a rock 'n' roll venue on the Las Vegas Strip is planned for Friday night, and 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.

Five of B.B. King's adult children visited the blues great one last time on Thursday in private at a Las Vegas funeral home.

Family members and King's longtime business agent were embroiled in a spat over the care and estate before he died, and the fight is expected to continue.

Daughters Karen Williams and Patty King accused King's longtime business agent, LaVerne Toney, of keeping them from seeing their father for a week after he died — and of preventing them from taking photos of him in his casket.

"A picture paints 1,000 words," Patty King said as she showed cellphone images of the same family group with their father at his birthday in September. "He loved his children."

The five family members refer to themselves as a family board. B.B. King is survived by 11 of his 15 children.

Toney, who worked for King for 39 years, had power-of-attorney over his affairs and was named in his will as executor of his estate despite several court challenges by Williams and Patty King. Another daughter, Riletta Mitchell, was second in line, but she died last September.

Toney told The Associated Press she's doing what B.B. King said he wanted.

"They want to do what they want to do, which is take over, I guess," Toney said of the family group. "But that wasn't Mr. King's wishes. Mr. King would be appalled."

B.B. King's will, dated Jan. 18, 2007, and filed Wednesday under his birth name, Riley B. King, appoints Toney to handle his affairs. Toney is banning the media and photographs of any kind during the public viewing from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Palm Mortuary on South Jones Boulevard, about three miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.

Funeral director Matt Phillips said viewers will be able to file past the open casket and security officials will prevent photos. The media won't be allowed inside.

King's eldest daughter, Shirley King booked a Las Vegas Strip venue for what she said will be a free musical tribute event starting an hour after the public viewing ends.

"I don't want to be part of the argument over his life," said Shirley King, who lives in Chicago and performs as Daughter of the Blues.

She's planning for live music and remembrances at the Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas at the Linq promenade starting at 8 p.m. Friday.

"I don't want to fight with family. I don't want to fight with management," she said. "When everybody gets through being sad about him leaving, I want them to come out and let the good times roll and be happy about his life."