Like it or loathe it, Sheffield had seen nothing like the palatial Fiesta cabaret club when it opened in the summer of 1970.
The purpose-built venue cost £500,000. The equivalent investment today would run into tens of millions.
The Fiesta had over 100 staff and attracted the biggest artists on the planet - from the Beach Boys to Stevie Wonder.
The purpose-built venue cost £500,000. The equivalent investment today would run into tens of millions.
The Fiesta had over 100 staff and attracted the biggest artists on the planet - from the Beach Boys to Stevie Wonder.
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00:00 And the acts they were wanting to get in were, you know, your Stevie Wonders, the Drifters,
00:06 some really, really big names.
00:09 And apparently the gig that really started to get it moving was when the Beach Boys played.
00:14 That was absolutely amazing.
00:16 So today we're all about celebrating this building, but not as it is a cinema today.
00:22 The summer of 1917, when it opened as the biggest nightclub in all of Europe,
00:28 the Fiesta Cabaret Club.
00:29 (upbeat music)