TONY JACKSON (GROUP) (& THE VIBRATIONS)

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TONY JACKSON (GROUP) (& THE VIBRATIONS)
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Tony Jackson was an English bass guitar player and singer who was a member of The Searchers. Anthony Paul Jackson was born in Dingle, Liverpool. Jackson was inspired by the skiffle sound of Lonnie Donegan, and then by Buddy Holly and other U.S. rock and rollers. 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. 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. 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". Jackson was unhappy with the band's move away from rock and roll to a softer, more melodic sound and felt that he was not getting appropriate attention. He left the group in July 1964 in some acrimony and immediately moved to London and put together a new band, The Vibrations, which had an organ-based sound instead of the Searchers' guitar based one. After leaving the Searchers Jackson spent £200 on cosmetic surgery on his nose. He said at the time that he had had a lifelong complex about his nose to the extent that he could not mix socially. The Vibrations toured the UK with The Hollies, Marianne Faithfull and other acts. They released four singles on the Pye Records label but only the first had any success. In 1965 they changed their name to The Tony Jackson Group but the fourth single also failed and Pye dropped them. The band then signed to CBS without improvement. Disillusioned and out of options, Jackson left the music business. Jackson took a variety of jobs including Spanish night club manager, entertainments representative, furniture salesman, disc jockey, and golf club manager. In the 1980s he tried to establish a Searchers revival band, but was unable to compete effectively with the other two that already existed. In 1996 he was convicted of threatening a woman with an air pistol after an argument over a phone booth, and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. The arthritis in his hands became so bad that he had to abandon even recreational guitar playing. In 2002 he said, "The spirit's willing, but the body's knackered." Towards the end of his life he suffered from diabetes, heart disease, and cirrhosis of the liver from a lifetime of heavy alcohol consumption. Jackson died on 18 August 2003 in a Nottingham hospital.

MEMBERS:

Tony Jackson - Bass and Vocals
Ian Buisel - Guitar and Vocals
Martin Raymond - Organ
Paul Francis - Drums
Denis Thompson - Bass

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Butch Moore / Glyn Johns The Sorrows / Tony Jackson: Love Potion # 9 Spain Pye PYEP 2078 Value: 75 €	Bye Bye Baby Watch Your Step Germany Vogue DV 14212 Value: 45 €	Bye Bye Baby Watch Your Step Holland Pye 7N 15685 Value: 35 €	Bye Bye Baby Watch Your Step Norway Pye 7N 15685 Value: 150 €
Bye Bye Baby Watch Your Step Sweden Pye 7N 15685 Value: 100 €	I'm The One She Really Think A Lot Of Never Leave Your Baby's Side Italy CBS 2069 Value: 50 €	Just Like Me / Understanding Shake / He Was A friend Of Mine Portugal Estudio EEP 50013 Value: 1200 €	Kinks: You Really Got Me / Shangri-Las: Remember Honeycombs: Have I The Right / Tony Jackson & the Vibrations: Bye Bye Baby Australia Astor NEP-24214 Value: 50 € HITMAKERS
Kinks: You Really Got Me / Shangri-Las: Remember Honeycombs: Have I The Right / Tony Jackson & the Vibrations: Bye Bye Baby UK Pye NEP 24214 Value: 25 €	Let Me Know You Are My Number One Italy CBS 2039 Value: 100 €	Love Potion # 9 Furtune Teller Sweden Pye 7N 15766 Value: 220 €	You Beat Me To The Punch This Little Girl Of Mine Denmark Pye 7N 15745 Value: 150 €
You're My Number One / Let Me Know I'm The One She Really Think A Lot Of / Never Leave Your Baby's Side France CBS 5726 Value: 120 €

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