The Searchers were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1959. Part of the Merseybeat scene, they flourished during the British Invasion of the 1960s, with hits including Sweets for My Sweet, Love Potion No. 9, Sugar and Spice, Needles and Pins, Don’t Throw Your Love Away, When You Walk in the Room, What Have They Done to the Rain, and Goodbye My Love. Along with the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Searchers tied for being the second group from Liverpool—after the Beatles—to have a hit in the US, when Needles and Pins and the Swinging Blue Jeans’ Hippy Hippy Shake both entered the Hot 100 on 7 March 1964. In June 2025, the Searchers played the Glastonbury Festival for the first time as the band’s “final show ever” after 68 years of performing. The band was founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by guitarist John McNally and guitarist/singer Mike Pender, taking their name from the 1956 John Ford western film The Searchers. The group grew out of an earlier skiffle band called the Army Generations, formed by McNally in 1955 with Ron Woodbridge (vocals, guitar), Tony West (bass), and Joe Kennedy (drums). In March 1957, guitarist Brian Dolan joined. In 1959, the Army Generations changed their name to the Searchers. When Woodbridge, West, and Dolan lost interest, McNally and Kennedy were joined by Pender and lead singer/bassist Tony Jackson, with the new line‑up initially performing as “Tony and the Searchers”.
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Take It Or Leave It
Needles And pins
When You Walk In The Room in the Style of
Don’t throw your love away
C. C. Rider / Jenny Take A Ride (1966)
Sweets For My Sweet
When I Get Home
Stand by me
Don’t throw your love away
What have they done to the rain
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