The Searchers

The Searchers’ formation year is similar to my parents’ birth years. Hailing from Liverpool, making them some of the pioneers of the genre, English beat rock, they have had a huge string of hits throughout their fruitful career, and they are still doing what they’re doing fifty years after their formation! They are one of those bands that have definitely stayed in their ways, playing exactly the same as they did all those years ago. Transcending just wasn’t for them. However, their harmonies are quite simply a force to be reckoned with. “Sweets for my Sweet” is one of those fantastic songs that opens this set, with tight locking ‘threw the key away 50 years ago’ kind of harmonies, also I must say, they are so incredibly dressed! “Young Girl” is one of those songs that listening to it, I realize how before it’s time it was, with it’s modulations and octave bass line. It could have come out yesterday and been a hit!