The Chasers

The Chasers were one of the longer-lived and harder-luck British beat bands to last through the 1960s, having been established in 1960 at the Chase Cross School in Romford by Len Tuckey (guitar), Jack Chambers (bass), and Lenny Butcher (drums). The group played local youth clubs and a music festival where they established enough of a reputation to get some fairly steady work. In 1961, Tony Wadlow succeeded Chambers on bass and also brought his saxophone and flute into the group's sound, which mostly consisted of British beat-style instrumentals. In 1963, the Chasers went throu...