Talking Heads made their debut at New York's CBGB's night club in 1976, opening for the Ramones.

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Many Americans have heard of Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley, or CBGB, the famous New York punk club.

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He later co-founded the influential Sire Records label, discovered Blondie at CBGB and produced records for the Go-Go's, Link Wray and others.

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We come out and do basically the same show we did in CBGB's in 1977 or the Whiskey A-Go-Go on the West Coast.

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Ms. Chrysler, who was born in Graz, Austria, is a multi-instrumentalist who's played the theremin at venues as varied as CBGB, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and a town square in Siberia.

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This ain't no disco, or CBGB.

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