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The Searchers

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Merseybeat originals whose chiming twelve-string sound shaped a generation of jangle-pop, touring almost continuously until the end.

The Searchers were among the Liverpool groups that emerged alongside the Beatles in the early 1960s, taking their name from the John Ford western. Their run of hits included "Sweets for My Sweet," "Needles and Pins," "Don't Throw Your Love Away" and "When You Walk in the Room," the latter two helping establish the ringing twelve-string guitar sound later picked up by American folk-rock bands.

Guitarist John McNally anchored the group for its entire existence, and the band continued playing regularly for decades after the beat boom had passed, working steadily in theatres and on package tours before retiring from the road.

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