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    Michael John Prendergast MBE (born 3 March 1941), known professionally as Mike Pender, is an English singer and guitarist. He was an original founding member...
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    Founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by John McNally and Mike Pender, the band took their name from the 1956 John Ford western film The Searchers...
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  • Mike Pender's Searchers contains lead singer and guitarist Mike Pender, formerly of The Searchers. Pender left The Searchers in December 1985 hoping to...
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  • (i.e. Chris's) way. Their egos grew bigger and as the new lead singer Mike Pender wrote in his autobiography: “Internal tensions within the band worsened...
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  • Searchers, which had been formed by John McNally and Mike Pender in 1959. He was spotted by McNally and Pender in the Cross Keys in Liverpool, upon hearing that...
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  • band The Searchers and the last band's album to feature lead singer Mike Pender. LP was released both in the UK and the US with completely different...
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  • 11 April 1964, went to No. 22 and stayed for 21 weeks. The Searchers Mike Pender - lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals John McNally - rhythm guitar...
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    band, broke off into a new band in 1959, containing McNally, Mike Pendergast (Mike Pender), Tony Jackson, Chris Crummey (Chris Curtis), and William Francis...
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  • at all, but then, in late 1978, signed to Sire to cut new album. As Mike Pender wrote in his autobiography: "It was a breath of fresh air for the band...
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  • ISBN 978-1-899750-41-2. Mike Pender (2014). The Search for Myself. Genuine Article Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-9931213-0-2. Mike Pender (2014). The Search for...
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