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CBGBs
9pm Tonight (Monday 5th March) - BBC Four
Sounds Of The City: Once Upon A Time In New York
This looks like an interesting yet possibly un-fulfilling piece on one of New York's finest venues, recently closed due to area yuppiefication. CBGBs spawned many a classic punk act in the '70's; The Patti Smith Group, Blondie, The Ramones, all this way before the Sex Pistols disgraced themselves on ITV. Talking Heads used to play there regularly (they even referred to it in Life During Wartime - the one that goes 'This ain't no party, this ain't no Disco').
The synopsis I read suggests a TV crew on the fringes of what became a socialite's paradise, many of the glitteratti unaware of the importance of the venue they'd gathered to close. However, lurking on the fringe of the frocks and tiaras the producer finds a woman dressed like one of the vagrants, observing proceedings through a permanent scowl. It is of course Patti Smith, and for this reason alone I shall be watching.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
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