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Topic: CBGB

(Robert Barry Francos/<a href="http://ffanzeen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">FFanzeen</a>/Bloomsbury Publishing/Salon)

The night AC/DC stormed CBGB

Joe Bonomo
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Where did "punk" come from?

Nicholas Rombes

Once upon a time on the Bowery

David Godlis
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David Godlis
Lou Reed (AP/Herbert Knosowski)

The ever-deceptive Lou Reed

Andrew O'Hehir

Punk's birth as a silly movie

Andrew O'Hehir