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| Throughout the History of Popular Music and in particular the
"Swinging Sixties" the "Charts" have been
dominated by groups. These inevitably produced a front man, usually
with a distinctive vocal style that became that group's signature. The
Searchers were one such 60's group, sweeping to fame in 1963 with
their first recording, "Sweets for My Sweet" which was the
first of three No. 1 hits, followed by no less than 14 more chart
hits. Voted second only to the Beatles in 1964, the Searchers became a
household name on both sides of the Atlantic. After the first two hits, one man emerged as the Creator of the Searchers sound that was to become a legend. The man responsible for those highly distinctive vocals and that "jangly" 12-string guitar is Mike Pender. Today the sounds of the sixties are as popular as ever. Mike Pender's Searchers still travel the U.K. and many continents singing, playing and creating that distinctive sound which has become a legend in popular music. Two big hits of the Sixties still heard regularly on the airwaves today sung by Mike Pender with his 12-string guitar are "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room" and both these songs are still particularly requested by audiences to this day. Today, Mike Pender's Searchers records for Doc Holiday's Mega International Records and still continue to knock out the unmistakable sound that made them legends in Rock & Roll. |