'Godmother of Punk' Dies at 88

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LOS ANGELES - Esther Wong, the unlikely "godmother of punk" who showcased such groups as Oingo Boingo at her Madame Wong's clubs in L.A.'s Chinatown and Santa Monica in the late 1970s and 1980s, has died. She was 88.

Wong died Sunday at her home in Los Angeles of natural causes. She had suffered from emphysema.

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'Godmother of Punk' Dies at 88

Slow to accept punk rock, new wave and other 1970s music, the colorful and sometimes controversial Wong came to be one its most ardent patrons in Los Angeles.

Her Madame...

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