Kristal, who died in Manhattan on Tuesday of complications from lung cancer at age 75, launched CBGB's in 1973 and in doing so helped spark the New York punk scene that centered around his club until ...

Hilly Kristal is seen in the CBGB club in this Dec. 16, 1993, file photo. Kristal, who helped launch the punk rock movement at the New York club, died Tuesday at 75. New York? Hilly Kristal had no ...

The Village Voice is reporting that Hilly Kristal was a millionaire. Not really surprising considering the owner of CBGB, who claimed to be broke, ran more than just a venue. Just look at all those ...

NEW YORK — Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Patti Smith ...

Karen Kristal and Dana Kristal in an undated photo from some time in the Eighties. Here’s a shocker: Hilly Kristal turns out to have been a millionaire. Just weeks after the legendary former CBGB ...

For obvious and legitimate reasons, Hilly Kristal was best known for nurturing the mid-’70s underground musical explosion thrown together under the umbrella of “punk” or “new wave.” CBGB, the club he ...

Two days after CBGB owner Hilly Kristal finished vacating his club on the Bowery, CMJ managed to get him on stage in front of badge-holding CMJ attendees. They billed it like this: Everything Hilly ...

Hilly Kristal ran CBGB but his ex-wife Karen legally owned it until she signed it over to him in 2005 — assuming that she actually did sign it over; the document is unwitnessed and she disputes it in ...

Hilly Kristal, whose dank New York Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands such as Blondie, the Ramones and the Talking Heads, has died ...

Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for such bands as the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads, has died of cancer. By ...

Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died after a ...