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McNally attended St Mary's College. John McNally has been married to Mary McNally since 1964. [13] Prior to working full time as a musician, McNally worked at the Alfred Holt’s Blue Funnel line, where his brother also worked, doing office work and delivering mail. [2] Since he was a child, John has enjoyed watching and playing football. [2]
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. [3]The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group formed by McNally in 1957, with his friends Ron Woodbridge (born 1938 in Liverpool; lead vocals), Brian Dolan (guitar) and Tony West (born 1938 in Liverpool, died 11 November 2010 in ...
John McNally (musician) (born 1941), singer and guitarist with the Searchers John J. McNally ( c. 1854 –1931), American playwright and theatre critic John McNally ( Emmerdale ) , a fictional character on the British soap opera Emmerdale
Mike Pender has stated that he wrote the music and Chris Curtis the lyrics. "I played the slide guitar figure and the chord sequence to Chris. He put down the lyrics and we both came up with the group’s first self-penned Top 20 hit." [1] According to Frank Allen's book, guitarist John McNally helped with the music part. [2]
John McNally (musician) O. Scott Ottaway; P. Mike Pender This page was last edited on 23 March 2019, at 21:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lonnie Donegan of course in England. I suppose Lonnie to a very great extent because, although skiffle was a very short-lived fad and it was a very simple, very crude style of music, it allowed anyone who could play anything on a guitar at all to believe they can get up on stage and do something without any great amount of talent.
Mike Pender founded The Searchers as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 with John McNally. The band took their name from the classic 1956 John Ford western The Searchers. Pender claims that the name was his idea, [2] but McNally ascribes it to 'Big Ron' Woodbridge (born Ronald Woodbridge, 1938, in Liverpool, Lancashire), their first lead ...
Meet The Searchers is the 1963 debut and most successful album by British rock band The Searchers.The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of the Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", which was a UK No.1 for the band, as well as their version of the Clovers "Love Potion No.9", which was released as a single in the U.S. (but not in the UK) the following year.