had been effectively over for two years. 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 and they found that there were few bookings in the UK so they toured southern Europe until even that withered. 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 1991, Tony Jackson and the Vibrations reformed and an album of Jackson's material after the Searchers was released. The resuscitation of his career was short-lived, however, although he did appear four times with Mike Pender's Searchers between 1992 and 1995. That ended in 1996 when 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." Death 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, he was 65. References 'Paul Francis, Drummer of the Vibrations, story of being on the road and in the studio with Tony Jackson and the Vibrations' Associated Press, 'Tony Jackson, Bass Player of the Searchers', (22 August 2003) Retrieved 22 May 2005 Retrieved 22 May 2005 Allen, Frank. 'Tony Jackson', jacobsladder.org.uk (August 2003) Retrieved 22 May 2005 Eder, Bruce. Allmusic 'Obituary: Tony Jackson', Daily Telegraph (20 August 2003) External links The Searchers' History The Searchers' Records including TJ solo releases 1938 births 2003 deaths English male guitarists Male bass guitarists English male singers English songwriters Musicians from Liverpool 20th-century English singers English rock bass guitarists English rock singers Alcohol-related deaths in England Deaths from cirrhosis 20th-century English bass guitarists 20th-century British male singers The Searchers (band) members