Fiesta Nightclub (Sheffield)

rdf:langString Fiesta Nightclub (Sheffield)

rdf:langString Fiesta Nightclub

rdf:langString Fiesta Nightclub

rdf:langString August 1970

rdf:langString Keith and Jim Lipthorpe

rdf:langString When it was opened by Keith and Jim Lipthorpe in August 1970, the Fiesta nightclub in Sheffield, England was reputed to be the largest in Europe. The Lipthorpes had originally opened a Fiesta nightclub in Stockton five years earlier in Stockton on Tees. The Sheffield Fiesta was situated on Arundel Gate in Sheffield, it cost £500,000 to purchase and had a 1,300 seat amphitheatre. Many celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s performed there, generally for a week at a time, with the opening act being The Shadows. Other major music stars performing there included Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Matt Monro, Sandie Shaw, The Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Roy Orbison, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Cilla Black, Lynsey de Paul, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Christie, and the Jackson Five, but also comedians such as Les Dawson and Tommy Cooper, as well as the entertainer, Bruce Forsyth. The building now houses the Sheffield Odeon cinema which opened in 1992.