After 68 years, the so-called longest-running pop band, The Searchers, has announced its first retirement. Having been touring through various line-ups since 1957, when John McNally and Mike Pender ...

Legendary UK pop group The Searchers will leave the stage after nearly 70 years, following their debut at this year's Glastonbury Festival. BBC News reports that the Merseybeats band, which have ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Britain’s longest-running pop band The Searchers have spoken about coming back out of retirement for a brand new tour – and this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Searchers, from left John McNally, Chris Curtis and Mike Pender, with Tony Jackson wearing a Santa Claus mask (PA Archive) The ...

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 ...

Hip-hop fans gathered across town at the CCP Open Grounds, swinging to the beat of the Black Eyed Peas. Meanwhile, Baby Boomers flocked to the Araneta Coliseum to watch popular British rock band The ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After 68 years, the so-called longest-running pop band, The Searchers, has announced its first retirement. Having been touring ...