From the RS Vaults: A First Look at the Ramones and Patti Smith Live at CBGBs

As a final sendoff to CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, who passed away on Tuesday, we wanted to post a couple of Rolling Stone dispatches from the first bloom of New York punk: Charles M. Young's early profile of the Ramones from 1976, and a review of a blistering Patti Smith live stand at CBs from 1977 by Mark Von Lehmden. (Click here for photos of the Ramones, Smith and more onstage at Kristal's club.)

"The Ramones Are Punks and Will Beat You Up" (August 12, 1976)

"Patti Smith: Love and Anarchy in NYC" (July 28, 1977)

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Song Stories

“Youth Knows No Pain”

Lykke Li | 2011

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”

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