Down In The Scuzz With The Heavy Cult Figures
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 7 June 1975
C.B.G.B. is a toilet. An impossibly scuzzy little club buried somewhere in the sections of the Village that the cab-drivers don't like to drive through.
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