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N.Y. Club's Talent Search: Anybody Listening?

Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 23 October 1975

NEW YORK — The gaudy white awning of CBGB shines like a lighthouse for freaks amid the darkened, derelict-strewn doorways of the Bowery — where not even a 26-night summertime "Festival of New York's Top 40 Unrecorded Rock & Roll Bands" can disturb the slumber of the damned.

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