Derby Club

Derby Club was a musical and comedy club located in Milan, Italy.

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This article is about Italian musical and comedy club. For the football club, see Derby County F.C. For the defunct baseball club, see Derby Baseball Club. For the horse racing arcade game, see Derby Owners Club.

The club was founded in the late 1950s by Gianni Bongioanni as a restaurant named "Gi-Go" in which live jazz music was occasionally played.[1][2][3] It turned into a nightclub in 1962, when thanks to the involvement of jazz musician Enrico Intra was renamed "Intra’s Derby Club" (later just "Derby Club") after the Inter Milan-A.C. Milan football derby, and started focusing on jazz music and cabaret performances.[1][2][3]

The club became a meeting place for a very diverse audience, and actively contributed to the launch of several artists' careers, including Enzo Jannacci, Cochi Ponzoni and Renato Pozzetto (aka Cochi e Renato), Paolo Villaggio, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bisio, Giorgio Faletti, I Gufi, Massimo Boldi, Teo Teocoli, Lino Toffolo, Paolo Rossi, Antonio Catania, Gianfranco Funari, Giobbe Covatta, Enrico Beruschi, Felice Andreasi, Francesco Salvi, Enzo Iacchetti, Walter Valdi.[1][2][3][4] Among artists who performed there were also Dario Fo, Charles Trenet, Amália Rodrigues, Ornella Vanoni, Gino Paoli, Gabriella Ferri, Bruno Lauzi, Franco Califano, Quartetto Cetra.[1] In the 1980s the club started declining, eventually closing in 1985.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Bassignano, Ernesto; Cantore, Lalla (1990). "Derby Club". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore. p. 533. (in Italian)
  2. Cappa, Felice; Gelli, Piero; Mattarozzi, Marco (1998). "Derby Club". Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900 (in Italian). Baldini & Castoldi. pp. 329–30. ISBN 978-88-8089-295-3.
  3. Crippa, Stefano (26 August 2016). "Derby, gli anni da ridere di Milano". Il manifesto. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. Dagradi, Danilo (5 February 2020). "Derby Club: C'era Una Volta Un Luogo Magico". Milanodavedere.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2023.

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