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The Everly Brothers: Deep Cuts
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Artist Biography
With their close-harmony vocals and indelible hooks, rock ānā roll duo The Everly Brothers were hugely popular and influential in the late 1950s and early ā60s, when they amassed 15 Top 10 hits, including three that topped the charts.
ā¢ Don and Phil Everly grew up in a musical family and were writing and singing as a duo by the time they were teenagers. Their first hit, āBye Bye Love,ā reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart in 1957.
ā¢ āWake Up Little Susie,ā also released in 1957, went to No. 1, as did the brothersā 1958 single āAll I Have to Do Is Dream.ā
ā¢ All 13 singles The Everly Brothers released from 1958 to 1959 reached the Top 40, and they returned to the top spot in 1960 with āCathyās Clown.ā
ā¢ In 1961, the brothers enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve, which short-circuited their career. The Everly Brothersā last Top 10 hits came in 1962 with āCrying in the Rainā (No. 6) and āThatās Old Fashionedā (No. 9).
ā¢ After their discharge from the Marines, the duo continued releasing singles at a rapid pace, though only two would make the Top 40: āGone, Gone, Goneā in 1963 and āBowling Greenā in 1967.
ā¢ In 1968, The Everly Brothers mined their formative country influences for the album Roots.
ā¢ Long-simmering creative tension between the brothers erupted onstage in 1973 in California when Phil smashed his guitar and walked off, leaving Don to finish the show alone. They wouldnāt collaborate again for 10 years.
ā¢ After a decade of solo efforts, The Everly Brothers reunited in 1983 for a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. They recorded three more albums together before parting again after Some Hearts in 1988.
ā¢ In 1986, The Everly Brothers were among the inaugural class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 1997.
ā¢ The Everly Brothersā final recording together came in 1998 on āCold,ā for the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Jim Steinman musical Whistle Down the Wind.
ā¢ Phil Everly died of lung disease in 2014, 16 days shy of his 75th birthday.