Their name might not ring through the annals of the British Invasion like some of their peers. But in terms of an influential sound, The Searchers made quite the impact, especially on their 1964 single “Needles and Pins." Those circling guitars would reverberate into the songs of some massive artists through the years. Here’s how The Searchers took a song that was barely a minor hit and turned it into a major one.
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