The Everly Brothers' Don Everly, half of one of rock’s earliest and most influential harmony groups, has died at age 84. The duo ruled the pop and country charts with 15 Top 10 hits, including “Wake Up Little Susie” and “All I Have to Do Is Dream.'
The resulting blend, steeped in country music, Appalachia, and early rock & roll, impacted on nearly every harmony-based band that followed, including the Beatles, the Mamas and the Papas, the Hollies and Simon & Garfunkel. But the Everlys’ influenced never waned. The brothers were among the first acts inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
The brothers and their mother relocated to Nashville in the mid-1950s . Still in high school, Don, ambitious from the start, began writing songs and had them covered by the likes of country star Kitty Wells. “I was never really good at school,” he toldBeginning with “Bye Bye Love,” a song rejected by 30 other acts before the brothers cut it in 1957, the Everlys’ string of hits made them early rock stars and heartthrobs.
Don himself fell on hard times soon into the Sixties. Due to the rigors of the road, he began using then-legal Ritalin. “People didn’t understand drugs that well then,” he told. “They didn’t know what they were messing with. It was a real disaster for a lot of people, and it was a disaster for me. It just got me strung out. I got so far out there. I didn’t know what I wads doing.”
Although many of the British Invasion and American bands of the Sixties were huge admirers of the Everlys, the brothers struggled musically during that decade. Don loved hanging out with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell, but the Everlys were considered relics from rock’s past. Finally, in 1973, they broke up onstage; Phil smashed his guitar and stormed off, and a drunken Don told the crowd, “The Everly Brothers died 10 years ago.
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