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In memory of Hilly Kristal, owner of the legendary New York club CBGB, who would have turned 85 today.

Photo by Drew Carolan, taken on Hilly’s birthday, September 23, 1985, for the first issue of SPIN Magazine.

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In memory of Hilly Kristal, who died of lung cancer on August 28, 2007, at the age of 75.

The photograph was taken in May 1987 by photographer Bob Gruen in front of the club on the Bowery in Manhattan.

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