Crazy Daisy Nightclub
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[edit] Background
The Crazy Daisy Nightclub was a Discotheque / Dance club in Sheffield,UK in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Located originally on the Corner of York Street and High Street, Sheffield S1 1PU, it later became Legends Nightclub and subsequently closed in the mid 1990s. The building is now used as a bank and shops. During its tenure it was the central social focal point in Sheffield city centre and claims a key role in 1980s Sheffield culture and Pop history.
[edit] Famous patrons
The club is most famous in UK and US Pop history and world wide, as the place where, in 1980, as an allegory of the Cinderella story, Philip Oakey (Lead singer of the synthpop supergroup The Human League), randomly spotted and recruited two unknown school girls, Joanne Catherall and Susanne Sulley(1), into the group. The group then rose rapidly to international prominence and commercial success in the early- and mid-1980s making international stars of both girls. The Band continues recording and performing to this day, 27 years later.(2)
Another regular patron of the Crazy Daisy in the early 1980s was stage and film actor Sean Bean who recalls his nights in the club during an interview for Exposed magazine in Jan 2007(3)
[edit] The Building Today
The last nightclub to occupy the building was Legends, this closed in the Mid 1990s and the site was redeveloped into commercial units. Today an outlet of Black's is where the main entrance was and the bank Bradford and Bingley dominates the building. There is no indication of the building's heritage or history but is mentioned on a number of tour guides and web sites such as Rock and Roll landmarks and every Human League website.
