The Searchers - Sugar & Spice [Japan Bonus Tracks]

The original Sugar & Spice was a pleasant, if not too ambitious artifact from the early days of the Merseybeat explosion, appearing in late 1963 at the same time that The Beatles were writing a new musical history -- on the other hand, the mere fact of its being the second of five original studio albums by The Searchers is pretty impressive, when one considers that such top-selling EMI acts of the same era as Gerry & The Pacemakers and The Dave Clark Five, never got to do anywhere near five LPs in England. Read More