‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

F ifty years ago, a dive bar in New York’s East Village started to attract attention as a new hub for rock music. Initially, this was a whisper conveyed in a handful of small-circulation music magazines. Then, celebrated musicians, record label executives, hip journalists and photographers, followed...

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