Before Bruce Willis began sleepwalking through the role of John McClane he first defended Nakatomi Plaza against Hans Gruber on Christmas Eve in 1988.

The real-life Fox Plaza is home to Twentieth Century Fox's official headquarters.

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Former Big Black frontman and legendary producer Steve Albini founded the Electrical Audio studio in the mid-90s. Studio space and sound engineering are available for booking.

This studio was featured in the first episode of Sonic Highways.

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"There is a place / Between the two greatest states in the Union / Where one feels so proud to pass / That they built, oh, a noble monument / To rock & roll, my friends, to rock & roll"

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...It is the fourth of March 2008. I am sitting in my office, surrounded by books from floor to ceiling, listening to the Swedish band Dungen and thinking about what I have written and where it is leading...Outside, at the front of the enormous Hilton Hotel, which is still in shadow, the lifts glide up and down in three glass shafts. Next door there is a redbrick building which, judging by all the bay windows, dormers, and arches, must be from the end of the nineteenth century or early twentieth. Beyond that, there is a glimpse of a tiny stretch of Magistrat Park with its denuded trees and green grass, where a motley gray house in a seventies style breaks the view, and forces the eye up to the sky, which for the first time in several weeks is a clear blue.

- My Struggle Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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All day long a regular stream of men went in and out of the door to US VIDEO, and having lived here for close to a year, in nine cases out of ten I could pick out who was about to go in and who would walk by.

- My Struggle Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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