Searching for the Jangle in the Jingle Jangle morning: Remembering the Searchers The Searchers have played their last gig and wound up as a working group. As their formation was 1960 that makes their longevity longer than the Stones at the time of writing, though to be fair the Stones can still claim 50% of their original line-up of 6 compared to the Searchers’ 25% (John McNally) of 4. Like the rise and fall of mountain ranges, music trends have come and sometimes gone in those decades: the British beat boom, rhythm and blues, folk rock, psychedelia, the Blues revival, Glam rock, Prog rock, hard rock, reggae, ska, metal, punk, power pop, electronica, indie music, grunge , hip hop, grime. The Searchers have played on through them all, though it is a bit salutary to think that, on a conservative estimate based on their gigging record, John McNally and Frank Allen must have struck the opening chords of Needles and Pins at least 50,000 times in the 55 years sin...