{"id":309,"date":"2007-09-06T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2007-09-06T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T10:28:00","slug":"cbgbs-founder-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"CBGB&#039;s founder dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/cbgb-787136.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/cbgb-787130.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBGB founder Hilly Kristal has died from complications of lung cancer at the age of 75. HK was the owner of CBGB&#8217;s &#8211; a club that helped launch the careers for the Ramones, Blondie, and the Talking Heads and most of the New York Punk scene. Over the last few years, Kristal fought a long legal battle with the club&#8217;s landlord to keep the club open, but lost, and the club closed down after 33 years in business. He was considering resurrecting the venue in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><b>On a related Note:<\/b> It seems like the &#8220;baby boom&#8221; generation has really started to die over the summer, and as sad as it is to see some amazing people leave us, I don&#8217;t want this blog to become the art obituaries. So if I miss some of these in the future, it&#8217;s not that I didn&#8217;t care, it&#8217;s just that I need to focus on the living for the most part. Thanks for understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBGB founder Hilly Kristal has died from complications of lung cancer at the age of 75. HK was the owner of CBGB&#8217;s &#8211; a club that helped launch the careers for the Ramones, Blondie, and the Talking Heads and most of the New York Punk scene. Over the last few years, Kristal fought a long legal battle with the club&#8217;s landlord to keep the club open, but lost, and the club closed down after 33 years in business. He was considering resurrecting the venue in Las Vegas. On a related Note: It seems like the &#8220;baby boom&#8221; generation has really&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=309\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CBGB&#039;s founder dies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[136,160,161],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}