CBGB was meant for country, bluegrass and blues. Two plain house rules, carry your own gear and play your own songs, made it the room where New York punk took shape.
How a 1942 swing club on Oxford Street became the room where British punk found its audience in September 1976.
Gilman Street opened on 31 December 1986 with a ban on alcohol and a vote for every major decision. Four decades on, the governance is the thing that survived.
