Topic: Hilly Kristal
A memorial service for punk rock was held at the weekend at New York's CBGB club, birthplace of the movement in America, which closed its spit-spattered doors after 33 loud years, a victim of gentrification.Some of the punk stars who ...
Obituaries in the NewsNelson Clyde IIITYLER, Texas (AP) _ Nelson Clyde III, publisher of the Tyler Morning Telegraph and president of T.B. Butler Publishing Co., has died. He was 61.Clyde died Wednesday night in a Dallas hospital after a lengthy ...
Hilly Kristal, Founder of Iconic Punk Rock Club CBGB, Dies at 75Hilly 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 ...
Hilly Kristal, the founder of the legendary New York punk club CBGB, died Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer. Kristal opened CBGB in 1973 as a country and bluegrass club. Over the 33 years CBGB was open, it hosted somewhere around ...
