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 ...

Britain’s longest-running pop band The Searchers have spoken about coming back out of retirement for a brand new tour – and this time it really could be their last. Rising to fame as part of the ...

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 ...

It made headlines everywhere: the longest-running pop band in history are calling it a day. Liverpool band The Searchers, formed in 1957 and part of the Merseybeat pop culture phenomenon of the 60s, ...

The 1960s pop legends, best known for chart-topping hits like Sweets for My Sweet, Needles and Pins, and When You Walk in the Room, made their long-awaited Glastonbury debut on the Acoustic Stage, ...

The Searchers are to stop touring after 68 years. The 'Sweets For My Sweet' hitmakers, who are known as the "longest-running band in pop history", are to go out on the road on their 'Final Farewell ...

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 ...

Music fans were left disappointed on Friday night after The Searchers’ historic farewell performance at Glastonbury Festival was not broadcast on BBC iPlayer - despite marking the end of the Liverpool ...