Fiesta Nightclub (Sheffield)

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| foundation = August 1970

| founder = Keith and Jim Lipthorpe

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When Keith and Jim Lipthorpe opened it in August 1970, the Fiesta nightclub in Sheffield, England, was reputed to be the largest in Europe.{{cite web|title=Sheffield: City On the Move... The Reel Monty|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2008/10/17/the_reel_monty_dvd_feature.shtml|work=BBC|accessdate=6 October 2012}} The Lipthorpes had opened a Fiesta nightclub in Stockton five years earlier on the Tees.{{cite news|last=Drury|first=Colin|title=The Fiesta's star burned bright|url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/the-fiesta-s-star-burned-bright-1-4961697|newspaper=The Star (Sheffield)|date=6 October 2012|accessdate=6 October 2012}} 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, The Stylists and the Jackson Five, but also comedians such as Les Dawson and Tommy Cooper, as well as the entertainer, Bruce Forsyth.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2009/05/11/fiesta_nightclub_feature.shtml|title=Memories of Sheffield Fiesta|website=Bbc.co.uk|accessdate=1 December 2017}}

The building now houses the Sheffield Odeon cinema, which opened in 1992.{{cite news|title=Those Vegas nights|url=http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/those-vegas-nights-1-4998673|accessdate=6 October 2012|newspaper=Sheffield Telegraph}}