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Brothers Don and Phil Everly developed a yearning harmony singing style, based on the old country act the Louvin Brothers, that gave them a series of huge international hits and to some extent defined the pop sound of the late 1950s/early 1960s. Their father Ike was a musician with his own radio show in Shenandoah, Iowa in the 1940s and Don and Phil's first experience in the entertainment industry came as the two youngest members of the Everly Family group. Chet Atkins, a family friend, arranged the brothers' first recording, a single called Keep A'Loving Me. It flopped but the brothers were signed as songwriters to a publishing company, which led to their first hit single, Bye Bye Love in 1957. It became a million seller and launched an amazingly successful career that saw them notch up hit after hit such as Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have To Do Is Dream and, biggest of all, Cathy's Clown. Their star faded with the arrival of the Beatles and mid-1960s beat boom, though they remained a successful touring act until a bitter split in 1972. The brothers barely spoke to each other for the next 10 years when both pursued solo careers, but they reunited in 1983, returning to the charts with On The Wings Of A Nightingale, written by Paul McCartney. They released a new album Some Hearts in 1989 and have since been seen sporadically in live shows.Artist biography compiled by BDS/West 10. All rights reserved
