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Tony Jackson Group
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mod60s
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Tony Jackson (July 16, 1938 – August 18, 2003) was an English bass guitar player and singer who was a member of The Searchers. Anthony Paul Jackson was born July 16, 1938, in The Dingle, Liverpool. After leaving school he went to Walton Technical College to train as an electrician. Jackson was inspired by the skiffle sound of Lonnie Donegan, and then by Buddy Holly and other U.S. rock and roll. He founded the skiffle group the Martinis. Nicknamed Black Jake, he joined the guitar duo The Searchers, which had been formed by John McNally and Mike Pender in 1959. The band soon expanded further to a quartet with the addition of the drummer Chris Curtis. Jackson built and learned to play a customized bass guitar. Learning his new job on the four-stringed instrument proved too difficult to permit him to continue singing lead so he made way for a new singer, Johnny Sandon in 1960. They played in Liverpool's nightclubs and the beer bars of Hamburg, Germany. Brian Epstein considered signing them but he lost interest after seeing a drunken Jackson fall off the stage at the Cavern Club. Sandon moved on in February 1962 and the band were signed by Pye Records in mid-1963 when The Beatles' success created great demand for Liverpudlian acts. Jackson was lead singer and played bass on the band's first two United Kingdom hits, Sweets for My Sweet and Sugar and Spice, but was not the vocalist on the band's biggest hit Needles and Pins. He was featured on both Don't Throw Your Love Away an
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Mod Club Party
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MOJO Mod Club Party
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Mojo - Mod Club Party
Watch Your Step : The Complete Recordings 1964-1966
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Mojo: Mod Club Party
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Just Like Me
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Mojo Presents: Mod Club Party
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Biff, Bang, Pow!, Pt.3
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Watch Your Step: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966
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Mod Club Party: 15 Keep-the-Faith Scorchers & Modernist Classics!
Watch Your Step (The Complete Recordings 1964-1966)
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