Hacienda at 40: The highs, the lows, the £6m losses - as told by key figures behind 'greatest club on earth'
Back on the evening of May 21, 1982, a Manchester icon was born. The Hacienda nightclub would open its doors for the first time at a vast old yacht warehouse on Whitworth Street West, and would go on to become the "epicentre" of the acid house and Madchester music and cultural scene of the late 80s and 90s.


