LOS ANGELES, Aug 23 — Don Everly, whose close-harmony singing with his brother, Phil, generated dreamy, chart-topping hits about teen romance in the late 1950s and early ‘60s and influenced groups from The Beatles to Simon and Garfunkel, has died, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday. He was 84., died on Saturday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, a family spokesperson told the newspaper. His brother died in 2014 at age 74.
“Perhaps even more powerfully than Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers melded country with the emerging sound of Fifties rock & roll,” saidThe Everlys’ success faded in the 1960s amid the advent of guitar-driven rock, tension between the brothers and drug problems. They split up for 10 years but their harmonies proved timeless.
Isaac Donald “Don” Everly was born on February 1, 1937, in Brownie, Kentucky, the son of two country musicians, Ike and Margaret Everly. Phil was born two years later and they were still boys when their musical careers began. With Ike Everly on guitar, the family was a traveling act and had its own radio show, on which Don and his younger brother would sing between commercials for XIP rat poison and Foster’s 30-minute Wonder Corn and Callus Remover., came in 1957, rising to No. 2 on the US Billboard pop charts. It was the first of many Everly tunes written by Boudleaux Bryant and his wife, Felice, including
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