RIP, Phil Everly of Everly Brothers dies at 74, semper fi.

[CK_John]

We went through Parris Island at the same time. Him and his brother were in a different training unit in the quonset hut next to mine.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. Aw damn.

RIP

[Lint Head]

2. I worked with Don back in the 70's.

[spanone]

3. oh no! they were so important in music.....

[panader0]

4. RIP Phil.....

Some of the best harmonies ever.

[dhill926]

5. Learned a lot about harmony...

Listening to them.

[Bigmack]

6. Ummm... I believe they did bootcamp....

... in San Diego. ITR at Pendelton.

Buddy of mine had P. Everly stenciled on his bucket when it was issued to him.

[DreamGypsy]

7. Hey, Phil. May you always drive a cadillac.

Yeah, most people probably remember The Everly Brothers from their 50's and early 60's hits.

My favorite album of theirs is Born Yesterday, from 1985, which included:

A great cover of Mark Knopfler's Why Worry, performed here with Mark and Chet Atkins:

then, for a change of pace, Dylan's Abandoned Love

and a classic love song - Always Drive a Cadillac: "The strongest love is the love that let's you go.."

Whew.

But for those not content with the later oeuvre...

RIP, Phil.

[longship]

13. All their works are incredible. Something that's been lost.

Popular music -- dare one say mucus -- has turned into yelling and loud guitars and drums, with so-called singers with less than an octave range.

That's why I despise popular music these days and have moved on (mostly opera these days).

But the Everly's were, and always have been, something very special.

Thanks for the great videos. Pretty damned wonderful, at a time when popular music meant actual music.

[loudsue]

8. Oh no! They are still my all-time favorites. I got a CD of theirs Christmas a year ago.

I still love everything they did. This is a big loss. They got me through a very difficult early home life.

[Nevernose]

9. That's a damned shame.

One of the few non-jazz acts we could agree were awesome.

[westerebus]

10. RIP

[2naSalit]

11. ...

[Surya Gayatri]

12. They were the only thing that made my early teen

years worth living. Their harmonies are legend.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. Check out this lyric

from his solo album "Living Alone":

I was one among the many
Who hadn't gotten any
In the senior class of Nineteen Fifty-Nine.

[Waiting For Everyman]

15. Very sad to hear this, RIP Phil.

The Everlys (and Danny and the Juniors) were the very first music I bought on my own, in 1957, at seven years old. It used to be a big deal to me as a kid, to be able to to walk up to the drugstore and buy singles that I had heard on the radio and liked that much.

They added a lot to those times, for lots of people.

One of their later hits (1983) that I like a lot, written by Paul McCartney.

[Alameda]

16. a boy in high school gave me

All I have to do is dream by them when I was only 14, it was a wake up, a nice one....RIP Phil. Listening to it again takes me right back.