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Founded in 1957 by John McNally (guitar/vocals), the Searchers had been originally among a large number of skiffle teams created in the wake of Lonnie Donegan’s success with “Rock and roll Island Range.” The Searchers’ instant competitors included rings like the Wreckers as well as the Confederates, both led by …

The death of Chris Curtis, founding person in the Searchers, on Feb 28, 2005, didn’t simply sadden fans of this most scintillating from the Uk Invasion/Merseybeat bands. In addition, it remaining a gaping opening within the rates of rock’s most interesting eccentrics, the drummer, vocalist, and so-charismatic frontman who once …