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These Liverpool legends had an uncanny knack for picking the perfect song (be it Jack Nitzsche/Sonny Bono’s "Needles and Pins," Jackie DeShannon’s "When You Walk in the Room" or Lieber & Stoller’s "Love Potion Number Nine") and turning it into a British Invasion smash of their own. The Searchers continued to evolve through the ’70s into the ’80s, but their British Invasion years on Pye were their most magical ones, and this 6-CD set is the first to ever collect every track they cut during that prime: mono and stereo versions of their albums plus studio outtakes, foreign-language recordings and a full CD of non-LP singles and EP tracks. You get the aforementioned hits plus "Ain’t That Just Like Me," "Sugar and Spice," "Don’t Throw Your Love Away," "Some Day We’re Gonna Love Again," "What Have They Done to the Rain," "Bumble Bee," "He’s Got No Love," "Have You Ever Loved Somebody," their singular spins on "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Twist and Shout," "Money (That’s What I Want)," "I’ll Be Doggone" (two versions of that one), "Hi Heel Sneakers," songs in French and German and more. Along with all those hits, heavenly harmonies and jangly guitars that made these Merseybeat pop-rockers heroes to future stars like Tom Petty, R.E.M. and countless power-pop bands, you’ll find a 36-page booklet with a new 6000-word essay. It’s a sumptuous tribute to a beloved band who are on their farewell tour in 2019! Grapefruit.