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CBGB founder Kristal dies at 75 (AP)

Hilly Kristal, left, founder and owner of the New York rock club CBGB, whose initials stand for Country Blue Grass Blues, poses with musician and actor Steven Van Zandt outside the rock club after the pair, joined by musicians and punkers, kicked off a 'Save CBGB' campaign, on, Aug. 1, 2005, in New York. Kristal died Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007, at the age of 75. Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, died after a battle with lung cancer, his son said(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Patti Smith Group.

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