Phil formed the influential pop duo The Everly Brothers, whose breezy harmonies married the Nashville country style in which they had been brought up with the teenage romantic themes that came to define white pop music in the 1950s.
While they never embraced the raunchiness of rock and roll, they became a significant influence on a host of acts, among them The Beatles, Buddy Holly, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys and The Byrds.
Even Bob Dylan claimed to have been “knocked out” when he saw the Everlys live, and wrote a song for them called The Fugitive.
The brothers’ popularity waned in the early Sixties, but they continued to record and perform until they fell out spectacularly in 1973, the beginning of an estrangement that lasted for a.
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