The Searchers: Searchers Paid £40 To Make LP
Alan Smith, NME, 12 July 1963
THE SEARCHERS might not be in the NME Top Ten this week – making an amazing jump from No. 24 to No. 5! – if they hadn't decided to invest £40 on their own private LP! It was certainly money well spent
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