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CBGB Festival Returns With Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols… CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal and his ex-wife Karen Kristal at 315 Bowery in the East Village in Manhattan, New York City.[2] The club was previously a biker bar and before that it was a dive bar.[3] The letters CBGB were for Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Kristal’s original vision for the club, but CBGB soon emerged as a…