



Long-simmering creative tension between the brothers erupted onstage in 1973 in California when Phil smashed his guitar and walked off, leaving Don to finish the show alone.In 1968, The Everly Brothers mined their formative country influences for the album Roots.After their discharge from the Marines, the duo continued releasing singles at a rapid pace, though only two would make the Top 40: “Gone, Gone, Gone” in 1963 and “Bowling Green” in 1967.The Everly Brothers’ last Top 10 hits came in 1962 with “Crying in the Rain” (No. In 1961, the brothers enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve, which short-circuited their career.All 13 singles The Everly Brothers released from 1958 to 1959 reached the Top 40, and they returned to the top spot in 1960 with “Cathy’s Clown.”.1, as did the brothers’ 1958 single “All I Have to Do Is Dream.” “Wake Up Little Susie,” also released in 1957, went to No.Their first hit, “Bye Bye Love,” reached No. Don and Phil Everly grew up in a musical family and were writing and singing as a duo by the time they were teenagers.With their close-harmony vocals and indelible hooks, rock ’n’ roll duo The Everly Brothers were hugely popular and influential in the late 1950s and early ’60s, when they amassed 15 Top 10 hits, including three that topped the charts.
