Jim Clash: Back in the day, you didn’t have all the tracks to record with like today. You had to get it on the first few takes, right? Mike Pender: It was a main track put down first. Everybody played ...

Chris Curtis, the original drummer and backing vocalist for influential 1960s Merseybeat combo the Searchers, died Feb. 28 in Liverpool after a long illness. He was 63. By Lars Brandle Chris Curtis, ...

It made headlines everywhere: the longest-running pop band in history are calling it a day. Liverpool band The Searchers, formed in 1957 and part of the Merseybeat pop culture phenomenon of the 60s, ...

The Searchers were one of the underrated bands of the 1960s British Invasion. They were a pop rock group that issued catchy and melodic music. They may not have been as creative as such contemporaries ...

The Soul Searchers, with original guitarist Chuck Brown currently the band s leader, are known nowadays for their deeply bouncy 1979 hit "Bustin Loose. It s a song that inspired the underground funk ...

Now it can be told. In 1964, Paul McCartney attempted to recruit the Searchers for Brian Epstein’s North End Music Stores (NEMS) stable but the Liverpool band refused to play second fiddle to the ...

They were a Merseybeat sensation with a string of warmly remembered Sixties hits – Sweets For My Sweet, Needles & Pins, When You Walk In The Room…And now, at an age when most men may search to ...

If you will allow this digression from sports, I must share the excitement of participating in bringing back the hit ‘60s British pop group Searchers to perform here after a 38-year absence. As some ...

Vocalist Mike Pender left the group in 1985 to pursue a solo career. Singer Mike Pender (Dominic Lipinski/PA) A founding member of the 1960s Merseybeat band the Searchers has said he plans to continue ...