mickey finn   12 #13 Posted June 7, 2018 Sad news indeed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Fishie moore   10 #14 Posted June 7, 2018 Remember the first all nighter with Ike and Tina Turner - 1966 (I think) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
St Tropez   10 #15 Posted June 7, 2018 I have a few Sheffield facts from my dad who knew him in his youth. He passed his 11+ and got into Firth Park School but got expelled quite soon and ended up living away from his parents on Catherine St with other family members in Pitsmoor. As a kid he worked in a bread van and got his first taste of earning money. My dad said he had strange goofy teeth and was not a looker but was nice, his brother Jeff however was very handsome.  His first club was Days Dancing which became Mojos in Toll Bar/Pitsmoor. His first scoop was hiring the Beatles in 62 and the venue was too small so he moved it from St Aidens Church Hall to White Lane. This then was the BIG TIME....hope you got an insight...RIP Peter, God bless.  ps I once went to Stringfellows in London and asked as I was from Sheffield could I come in for free..they let me and fella in for free...big respect. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Anna B Â Â 1,365 #16 Posted June 7, 2018 Did he own the Mojo Club in Sheffield? Sad news. Â He started with the Black Cat club on City Road, in an old Church Hall, wih brother Geoff as DJ and his mother on the door. Â Built it into a huge empire over the years, via the Mojo, Cinderella Rockerfella in Leeds, several other ventures, and finally Stringfellows in London, a favourite watering hole of the very rich and very famous. He takes credit for the being the first to introduce Poledancing and the 'lapdance,' whether that's true or not I don't know but it's typical of Peter to claim it. Â Local boy made good. Â RIP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
spilldig   176 #17 Posted June 7, 2018 One of ours. RIP Pete. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Penistone999   10 #18 Posted June 7, 2018 A true Gentleman , A true sheffield Legend  RIP Peter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jeffrey Shaw   83 #19 Posted June 7, 2018 Another nail in Sheffield’s 1960s coffin True; but then that's what happens to all of us and- as in his case- several decades on. Sad, nevertheless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ANGELFIRE1 Â Â 10 #20 Posted June 7, 2018 A reyt Yorkshireman, and a son of Sheffield. RIP. Â Angel1. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
feederfil   10 #21 Posted June 7, 2018 Rip Pete By the way Ike and Tina Turner wasn't the first all nighter and he didn't run Days dancing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Fishie moore   10 #22 Posted June 7, 2018 He once borrowed £2 from me in the pub down the road from the Mojo - was it called the Tollbar? Reminded him when we were in London for the millennium - so asked us to his club and a bottle of champagne A good local guy ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99 Â Â 771 #23 Posted June 7, 2018 I didn't get to hear about his death until someone mentioned it, late morning. I was genuinely shocked. Â Great character & someone who worked their way up from the bottom, (no pun intended), through hard graft. A lesson for current wannabe celebs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
St Petre   80 #24 Posted June 9, 2018 He once borrowed £2 from me in the pub down the road from the Mojo - was it called the Tollbar? Reminded him when we were in London for the millennium - so asked us to his club and a bottle of champagne A good local guy !  The pub was the Tollgate, the building is still there on Pitsmoor Road but hasn't been a pub for many years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...