Muhammad Ali is said to have gone there. Tony Wilson supposedly had his stag party there. Even Bob Marley is rumoured to have visited.
Moss Side cellar club The Reno was legendary in its day, ‘a civilisation with its own black market, social structure, king and queen, all frustrated artists’, as former regular Linda Brogan describes it.
Yet its name seems to have been lost somewhere in Manchester’s illustrious clubbing history.