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Don Everly, founder along with his brother Phil the Everly Brothers, has died at the age of 84 at his home in Nashville,
Tennessee
, one of the capitals of popular music in the United States, the city where he developed his career.
His family has not disclosed the reason for his death.
The Everly brothers were, rather than a duo, a family ensemble that settled in Nashville in the 1940s. Don was born in 1937 in Kentucky and his brother Phil arrived in 1939 in Chicago.
His father was a miner who gave up work for the wandering life of music
and who recruited his wife and a nephew to the group, known as the Everly Family. Together they traveled the back
roads
of popular music of that time: local radios, small town theaters ... At the end of that period, as they entered adulthood, Don and Phil were employed as paid songwriters in the record industry. from Nashville.
From that point, the jump was relatively quick and easy to explain: the Everlys managed to give a more melodious and more youthful aspect to country music,
more pop
, perfect for a country that was going through its years of optimism and growth: Elvis, television, the world of
American graffiti ..
.
His first single,
Bye bye love
(1957)
,
opened a cycle of successes linked:
Wake up, little Susie
,
Crying in the rain
,
All I have to do is dream
and
Cathy's Clown,
his best-selling single (although not the most remembered ), released in 1960. With the turn of the decade, the brothers left the Cadence label, signed for Warner, then a new player in the music business, and lost some of their connection with the public. Despite delivering very valuable pieces in their quest to
continue modernizing the country tradition
, the world began to turn towards other sounds more in the vein of The Byrds and The Beatles. In addition,
health
of the Everly Brothers began to crack due to, among other reasons, Don's addiction to
Speed
.
The last
top 10
of the band was
That's old fashioned (That's the way love should be)
.
Later, the brothers
enlisted in the army
, studied acting, and gradually separated from each other.
In 1973, a concert ended with heated public discussion and led to
a 10-year hiatus
in the Everlys' career.
When they returned, they already belonged to the category of nostalgia.
It doesn't matter: the music of the Everly Brothers left its mark on artists like
The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills & Nash
... Paul McCartney has written songs for them and has sung their repertoire and Keith Richards acknowledged his fascination with Don's talent in his biography.
Phil Everly died in 2014. Don has enjoyed seven more years of devotion to his work.
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