Some of our older readers may even remember donning baggy trousers and hitting the dancefloor at Cleopatra's in the 1970s when Derby had a northern soul scene. Zanzibar might not have been to everyone's taste but it was very popular at one point and the toilets were quite spacious, to be fair. Maybe you snogged your future spouse for the first time in Eclipse, or perhaps you were there that night in The Pink Coconut when Mark 'Return of the Mack' Morrison got arrested outside. Names such as Ritzy, The Rock House and Paradise will still resonate with thousands of people who came of age shaking their bits to the hits in Derby's top nightspots. These shots will drag you back in time to a period when you could still get a pint of warm lager for a couple of quid. As Kylie wisely sang, when you can't find the music, to get down and boogie, all you can do is step back in time.Īnd that's exactly what we're about to do, having trawled through the Derby Telegraph archives in order to dredge up a few pictures of Derby's old nightclubs.
