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"The Searchers" были основаны в 1960 году в Ливерпуле в качестве группы сопровождения Джонни Сэндона. В первоначальный состав четверки, получившей название по фильму Джона Вэйна, вошли Джон Макналли, Майк Пендер, Тони Джексон и Крис Кертис. Вплоть до конца 1961 года в "Iron Door Club" они подыгрывали Сэндону, пока тот не бросил их. Парням пришлось самим зарабатывать себе на хлеб, выступая по разным ливерпульским клубам, и подчас давая по три концерта за вечер в разных местах. В 1962 команда выбралась на континент, в мекку тогдашнего рок'н'ролла – Гамбург. По возвращении оттуда "Searchers" заключили контракт с "Pye", и под руководством менеджера Тони Хатча выпустили свой первый сингл "Sweets for My Sweet". Увидевший свет в июле 1963-го, он добрался до верхушки хит-парада лишь в октябре, скинув оттуда самих "Beatles".
"Битлы" зато потом отыгрались, когда их "Please Please Me" перекрыл доступ к первой позиции альбому "Meet The Searchers". Группа ответила вереницей хитовых синглов, среди которых "Sugar and Spice", "Don't Throw Your Love Away", "Some Day We're Gonna Love Again" и самая известная вещь "Needles and Pins".
Летом 1964-го на пике успеха коллектив покинул басист и вокалист Тони Джексон, основавший свою собственную банду "The Vibrations". Однако ему нашлась неплохая замена в лице Франка Аллена. С ним "Searchers" также сделали несколько хит-синглов. В 1966 году после большого тура по Юго-Восточной Азии и Австралии в компании с "Роллингами" барабанщику Крису Кертису пришла в голову мысль, что ему пора заняться продюсерской деятельностью. Место за ударными занял Джон Блант. За три года его пребывания в коллективе ансамбль поменял лейбл на "Liberty", и выпустил в свет "Take It or Leave It", "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" и некоторые другие менее успешные релизы.
В декабре 1969-го в "Searchers" появился новый ударник, шотландец Билли Адамсон. Начиная с 1972 года популярность группы значительно поубавилось, и она скатилась до выступлений в кабаре перед разношерстной публикой.
В 1979-м и в 1980-м команда выпустила пару альбомов, сделанных в духе ранних вещей, но спрос на такую музыку уже был невысоким, и пластинки плохо продавались. В 1985 году ансамбль покинул один из его основателей Майк Пендер, начавший выступать под вывеской "Mike Pender's Searchers". Макналли, Аллен и Адамсон не собирались прекращать свою деятельность, тем более что спрос на мелодии 60-х снова начал расти. Вместо Пендера они приняли к себе нового лидер-вокалиста, к тому же неплохо владевшего гитарой, Спенсера Джеймса. В конце 80-х "Searchers" довольно успешно гастролировали по Англии, Америке и Германии, и выпустили альбом "Hungry Hearts".
Летом 1989 года группа была удостоена чести открывать концерты Клиффа Ричарда перед 75-тысячной толпой, собравшейся на стадионе Уэмбли. Девяностые годы команда провела в основном на гастролях, разъезжая по всему миру. В 1998-м уставший от бесконечных поездок Адамсон решил уйти на заслуженный отдых и освободил свое место Эдди Роту. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
"Битлы" зато потом отыгрались, когда их "Please Please Me" перекрыл доступ к первой позиции альбому "Meet The Searchers". Группа ответила вереницей хитовых синглов, среди которых "Sugar and Spice", "Don't Throw Your Love Away", "Some Day We're Gonna Love Again" и самая известная вещь "Needles and Pins".
Летом 1964-го на пике успеха коллектив покинул басист и вокалист Тони Джексон, основавший свою собственную банду "The Vibrations". Однако ему нашлась неплохая замена в лице Франка Аллена. С ним "Searchers" также сделали несколько хит-синглов. В 1966 году после большого тура по Юго-Восточной Азии и Австралии в компании с "Роллингами" барабанщику Крису Кертису пришла в голову мысль, что ему пора заняться продюсерской деятельностью. Место за ударными занял Джон Блант. За три года его пребывания в коллективе ансамбль поменял лейбл на "Liberty", и выпустил в свет "Take It or Leave It", "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" и некоторые другие менее успешные релизы.
В декабре 1969-го в "Searchers" появился новый ударник, шотландец Билли Адамсон. Начиная с 1972 года популярность группы значительно поубавилось, и она скатилась до выступлений в кабаре перед разношерстной публикой.
В 1979-м и в 1980-м команда выпустила пару альбомов, сделанных в духе ранних вещей, но спрос на такую музыку уже был невысоким, и пластинки плохо продавались. В 1985 году ансамбль покинул один из его основателей Майк Пендер, начавший выступать под вывеской "Mike Pender's Searchers". Макналли, Аллен и Адамсон не собирались прекращать свою деятельность, тем более что спрос на мелодии 60-х снова начал расти. Вместо Пендера они приняли к себе нового лидер-вокалиста, к тому же неплохо владевшего гитарой, Спенсера Джеймса. В конце 80-х "Searchers" довольно успешно гастролировали по Англии, Америке и Германии, и выпустили альбом "Hungry Hearts".
Летом 1989 года группа была удостоена чести открывать концерты Клиффа Ричарда перед 75-тысячной толпой, собравшейся на стадионе Уэмбли. Девяностые годы команда провела в основном на гастролях, разъезжая по всему миру. В 1998-м уставший от бесконечных поездок Адамсон решил уйти на заслуженный отдых и освободил свое место Эдди Роту. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Originally founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by John McNally and Mike Pender (Mike Prendergast), the band took their name from the classic 1956 John Wayne western The Searchers. Prendergast claims that the name was his idea, but McNally ascribes it to 'Big Ron' Woodbridge, their first lead singer. The issue remains unresolved.
The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group formed by McNally, with his friends Brian Dolan (guitar) and Tony West (bass). When the other two members lost interst McNally was joined by his guitarist neighbour Mike Prendergast. They soon recruited Tony Jackson with his home-made bass guitar and amplifier and styled themselves Tony and the Searchers with Joe Kelly on drums. Kelly soon left to be replaced by Norman McGarry and it is this line-up—McNally, Pender (as he soon became known), Jackson and McGarry—that is usually cited as the original foursome.
McGarry did not stay long, however, and in 1960 his place was taken by Chris Crummey (who later changed his name to Curtis). Later that year Big Ron had a successful audition with Mecca and became a ballroom singer. He was replaced by Billy Beck, who changed his name to Johnny Sandon. The band had regular bookings at Liverpool's Iron Door Club as Johnny Sandon and the Searchers.
Sandon left the band in late 1961 to join The Remo Four in February 1962. The group settled into a quartet sharing the vocal lead and billed simply as The Searchers. They continued to play at the Iron Door, The Cavern, and other Liverpool clubs. Like many similar acts they would do as many as three shows at different venues in one night. They negotiated a contract with the Star-Club in the St. Pauli district Hamburg for 128 days, with three one-hour performances a night, starting in July 1962.
The band returned to a residence, at the Iron Door Club and it was there that they tape recorded the sessions that led to a recording contract with Pye Records with Tony Hatch as producer.
Hatch played piano on some recordings and wrote "Sugar and Spice"—the band’s second number one record—under the pseudonym Fred Nightingale; a secret he kept from the band at the time.
After scoring their monumental hit "Needles and Pins", bassist Tony Jackson went solo and was replaced by Hamburg pal Frank Allen of Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers.
Chris Curtis left the band in 1966 and was replaced by the Needles and Pins-influenced John Blunt, who in turn was replaced by Billy Adamson in 1970.
As musical styles evolved, the Searchers could not keep up and as a result, the hits ran out and while they continued to record for Liberty Records and RCA Records, ended up on the British "Chicken in a Basket" circuit although they did score a minor US hit in 1971 with "Desdemona".
The group continued to tour through the 1970s and were rewarded in 1979 when Sire Records signed the band to a multi-record deal. Two albums were released by them, The Searchers and Play for Today (retitled Love's Melodies outside the UK). Both records garnered great critical acclaim but did not break into the charts. They did however revitalize the group's career. According to John McNally, the band were ready to head into the studio to record a third album for Sire when they were informed that due to label reorganization, their contract had been dropped.
In 1981, the band signed to PRT Records (formerly Pye, their original label) and began recording an album but only one single, "I Don't Want To Be The One" backed with "Hollywood", saw the light of day at that time. The rest of the tracks would be released as part of 2004's 40th Anniversary collection.
Soon after the PRT release, Mike Pender left the group amidst great acrimony and now tours as Hollywood. McNally and Allan recruited former First Class vocalist Spencer James to fill Pender's shoes.
In 1988, Coconut Records signed The Searchers and the album Hungry Hearts was the result. A very contemporary sounding release, it featured modern sounding remakes of "Needles and Pins" and "Sweets For My Sweets". While the album was not a major hit, it did keep the group in the public eye.
The band continues to tour with Eddie Rothe replacing Adamson on drums and is considered to be one of the most popular 1960s bands on the UK concert circuit.
for more info see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_%28band%29
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group formed by McNally, with his friends Brian Dolan (guitar) and Tony West (bass). When the other two members lost interst McNally was joined by his guitarist neighbour Mike Prendergast. They soon recruited Tony Jackson with his home-made bass guitar and amplifier and styled themselves Tony and the Searchers with Joe Kelly on drums. Kelly soon left to be replaced by Norman McGarry and it is this line-up—McNally, Pender (as he soon became known), Jackson and McGarry—that is usually cited as the original foursome.
McGarry did not stay long, however, and in 1960 his place was taken by Chris Crummey (who later changed his name to Curtis). Later that year Big Ron had a successful audition with Mecca and became a ballroom singer. He was replaced by Billy Beck, who changed his name to Johnny Sandon. The band had regular bookings at Liverpool's Iron Door Club as Johnny Sandon and the Searchers.
Sandon left the band in late 1961 to join The Remo Four in February 1962. The group settled into a quartet sharing the vocal lead and billed simply as The Searchers. They continued to play at the Iron Door, The Cavern, and other Liverpool clubs. Like many similar acts they would do as many as three shows at different venues in one night. They negotiated a contract with the Star-Club in the St. Pauli district Hamburg for 128 days, with three one-hour performances a night, starting in July 1962.
The band returned to a residence, at the Iron Door Club and it was there that they tape recorded the sessions that led to a recording contract with Pye Records with Tony Hatch as producer.
Hatch played piano on some recordings and wrote "Sugar and Spice"—the band’s second number one record—under the pseudonym Fred Nightingale; a secret he kept from the band at the time.
After scoring their monumental hit "Needles and Pins", bassist Tony Jackson went solo and was replaced by Hamburg pal Frank Allen of Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers.
Chris Curtis left the band in 1966 and was replaced by the Needles and Pins-influenced John Blunt, who in turn was replaced by Billy Adamson in 1970.
As musical styles evolved, the Searchers could not keep up and as a result, the hits ran out and while they continued to record for Liberty Records and RCA Records, ended up on the British "Chicken in a Basket" circuit although they did score a minor US hit in 1971 with "Desdemona".
The group continued to tour through the 1970s and were rewarded in 1979 when Sire Records signed the band to a multi-record deal. Two albums were released by them, The Searchers and Play for Today (retitled Love's Melodies outside the UK). Both records garnered great critical acclaim but did not break into the charts. They did however revitalize the group's career. According to John McNally, the band were ready to head into the studio to record a third album for Sire when they were informed that due to label reorganization, their contract had been dropped.
In 1981, the band signed to PRT Records (formerly Pye, their original label) and began recording an album but only one single, "I Don't Want To Be The One" backed with "Hollywood", saw the light of day at that time. The rest of the tracks would be released as part of 2004's 40th Anniversary collection.
Soon after the PRT release, Mike Pender left the group amidst great acrimony and now tours as Hollywood. McNally and Allan recruited former First Class vocalist Spencer James to fill Pender's shoes.
In 1988, Coconut Records signed The Searchers and the album Hungry Hearts was the result. A very contemporary sounding release, it featured modern sounding remakes of "Needles and Pins" and "Sweets For My Sweets". While the album was not a major hit, it did keep the group in the public eye.
The band continues to tour with Eddie Rothe replacing Adamson on drums and is considered to be one of the most popular 1960s bands on the UK concert circuit.
for more info see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_%28band%29
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.