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CBGB is a legendary club in the Manhattan Bowery district. Originally it featured "country, bluegrass, and blues", hence the name. In the early 1970s it hosted many punk and new wave bands.
Some of the bands that played at CBGB:
- Blondie
- Elvis Costello
- Wayne County (later known as Jane County)
- The Heartbreakers
- The Police
- Richard Hell & The Voidoids
- The Ramones
- Patti Smith
- Television
- Talking Heads
