“Twice a year, on New Year’s Eve and the May birthday bash, there was no place on earth like the Hacienda. That’s a fact. Stone cold fact.

Stand-out tune was Lulu’s ‘Shout’ on those party nights, hardly hip but these were the days of the war (against all white New Romantic shite) and we did have rationing.” — Tony Wilson

• Lulu’s — Shout