The Searchers
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Report by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 20 April 1963
By BILL HARRY, Editor of MERSEY BEAT ...
The Searchers: Searchers Paid £40 To Make LP
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 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 ...
Hit Brings Big Offers for the Searchers
Profile and Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963
No sales for three weeks, then crash, the new boys make it big! ...
Everything Happens to the Searchers!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 24 August 1963
Success, accidents, you name it, they've had it! ...
June Harris Visits the Searchers... And Finds Them Doing Nothing!
Report by June Harris, Disc, 21 September 1963
THE THEATRE was quiet! A few people sat scattered around the auditorium, and The Searchers were on stage, saying and doing nothing! ...
Live Review by June Harris, Disc, 21 September 1963
ROY, BRIAN, FREDDIE — THEY'RE A KNOCKOUT! ...
'Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya' is Selling a Bomb, but the Searchers are Still Arguing About It!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 12 October 1963
THINGS ARE swinging for the Searchers. Their 'Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya' EP stormed into our Top Thirty two weeks ago at 16, moved up to ...
Searchers Aim to Shake the Market!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 4 January 1964
THIS YEAR, more than anything, The Searchers want to shake the British market with a new, way-out sound! Their success last year with numbers like ...
Here's What Makes Searchers a Hit
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 7 March 1964
WHAT MAKES a hit disc? The singer, the song, the producer, or a combination of all three? More particularly, what makes The Searchers such a ...
Star Beat: Mike Grant Reporting On The Mersey Scene
Report by Mike Grant, Rave, April 1964
A BLONDE hairdresser is said to be very much the apple of Ringo Starr's eye at the moment. She lives and works in Liverpool and ...
Worldwide Audiences for Searchers, Says Frank Allen
Interview by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 22 October 1964
BRAND NEW Searcher Frank Allen described to us some of the excitement he felt on his first worldwide trip with the group shortly before he ...
The Searchers: Strings and Searchers!
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 26 December 1964
THERE THEY were — four Searchers in a Pye recording studio. Said Chris Curtis: "We're doing a new album, an elaborate one using strings." ...
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 27 March 1965
THE ORGAN and the saxophone are the accepted instrumentation in the '65 Sound. But this week we find, among many others the Searchers — number ...
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al: NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965
IT WAS THE GREATEST POP SHOW ON EARTH ...
Dusty Springfield, the Lovin' Spoonful: Ready, Steady, Go!
Film/DVD/TV Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 23 April 1966
…and wasn't Dusty a gas on RSG? ...
Retrospective by Steve Turner, New Musical Express, 8 November 1975
WHEN 'GLAD All Over', the third single by The Dave Clark Five, hit number one in Britain in January of 1964 it offered the media ...
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 8 November 1986
PERHAPS HOPING to capitalize on the nostalgia fever that has made the recent Monkees tour a success, five acts that got their start during the ...
Call Me: The Songs Of Tony Hatch
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, Sanctuary Records, July 2002
WHEN PETULA Clark hit number one in America with 'Downtown' in January 1965 she became the first British solo singer to top the US charts. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Clayson, Record Collector, Fall 2011
Alan Clayson investigates British artists of the 1960s whose early output included records issued only in Germany. ...
see also Tony Hatch
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