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INSANE: Searchers - The Real Truth

“I’d met Elvis Presley’s guitar player, who told me James Burton used banjo strings...” How Ritchie Blackmore came across an obscure string mod that introduced him to a whole new sound – and why it didn’t work for him

Burton proved it was possible to use banjo strings on guitar, but Blackmore’s early adventures with the hack got mixed results

Guitar World

Fans outraged as legendary band The Searchers’ final ever show at Glastonbury is snubbed by BBC

Fans were left frustrated after a landmark moment at Worthy Farm went untelevised, prompting questions about how legacy acts are treated during festival coverage

Evening Standard

“An ambition that has eluded us – until now. What a way to round off a tour and a career”: The ‘longest running pop band’ will end their career at Glastonbury

The Searchers will bow out after 66 years

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The Searchers to quit touring after 68 years

The Searchers, who are known as the "longest-running band in pop history", are to stop touring after 68 years.

BANG Premier

The Searchers to play final show at Glastonbury after touring for 68 years

The Liverpool pop group had three number one hits including a cover of Sweets For My Sweet in 1963.

Evening Standard

Britain’s oldest pop band to split after farewell show at Glastonbury

The Searchers have been touring regularly since they formed in 1957, and are now preparing to take their final bow

The Independent UK

The Searchers bring their musical quest to an end after 68 years

Exclusive: Merseybeat act, contemporaries of the Beatles, will play final show at Glastonbury this year after farewell tour

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“Chuck Berry’s manager said, ‘Nobody’s allowed to play any Chuck Berry songs.’ We started Roll Over Beethoven – he ran onstage and tried to stop us”: The Liverbirds played alongside the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – and paved the way for women in rock

From booting Chuck Berry’s manager off stage and proving John Lennon wrong, to touring Japan and blazing a screaming trail across Europe, The Liverbirds took Merseybeat beyond British shores, on their own terms

Guitar World

The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn

An absorbing study of the radical left makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises the Jeremy Corbyn years

The Guardian - UK

'Longest running band in pop history' who hail from Liverpool

Their career spans decades

Liverpool Echo

‘John Lennon was violent. He’d fight about anything’: the inside story of Merseybeat, the UK’s early pop explosion

Early 1960s Liverpudlian pop may have been dominated by the Beatles, but it was a thriving scene whose acts filled the charts. Its artists explain why wild success gave way to heartbreaking failure

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