This is very sad news. Springfield (MA) Union, August 24, 1973, p. 27. [31] Around this time, the brothers also set up their own record label, Calliope Records, for solo projects. And he was singing away. Greensboro (NC). Everly [11] They attended Longfellow Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa, for a year,[12] but then moved to Shenandoah in 1944, where they remained through early high school. Ike worked in coal mines from age 14, but his father encouraged him to pursue his love of music and Ike and Margaret began singing together. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. Don had graduated from high school in 1955, and Phil attended Peabody Demonstration School in Nashville,[16] from which he graduated in 1957. "There's something to the arrangement of some of these covers thathas a purity to it that reallyoriginated with them," she said." Musicians on the LP included Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler, Rockpile and Dire Straits drummer Terry Williams, and keyboard player Pete Wingfield. Singer and guitarist Don Everly has died at age 84. Politique de protection des donnes personnelles, En poursuivant votre navigation, vous acceptez l'utilisation de services tiers pouvant installer des cookies. The brothers resumed performing in 1971 and issued two albums for RCA Records in 1972 and 1973. [66], Don Everly claimed in a 2014 interview with the Los Angeles Times that he had given up smoking in the late 1960s and that Phil had stopped too, but started again during their breakup and had continued until 2001. Five years ago, the Grammys brought over, they had everybody Little Richard and Chuck Berry and they wanted the Everly Brothers badly, he recalled. Phil Everly [55], In 1998, the brothers recorded "Cold" for Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Jim Steinman's musical Whistle Down the Wind, and the recording was used in stage versions as source music. When Don collapsed in England in mid-October 1962, reporters were told he had food poisoning;[38] when the tabloids suggested he had taken an overdose of pills, his wife and his brother insisted he was suffering physical and nervous exhaustion. It's the two of us together. [84] Their contribution to music has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. [49], Phil recorded more frequently, but with no chart success until the 1980s.