Don Everly.Photo: Frans Schellekens/Redferns/Getty
Don Everly, half of the chart-topping rock ‘n’ roll duo the Everly Brothers, has died. He was 84.
Don died Saturday in his Nashville home, a rep for the musician toldThe Los Angeles Times. A cause of death has yet to be shared.
Don’s death came 7 years after the death of hisyounger brother Phil, who died at the age of 74 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The Everly Brothers.CBS Photo Archive/Getty
“Don Everly of the Everly Brothers has died. All The Saints Rejoice in Heaven When a Fallen Angel Flys [sic],” Roy Orbison Jr., whose late father was a friend of the duos, wrote in a separate tribute. “This world loves you Don. Thank You for the Music.”
Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — whom the brothers recorded a song for in 1998 — also mourned the musician’s death,writing, “Farewell Don. A curtain has finally come down on the greatest duo in rock history. The Everly Brothers were the daddies of the vocal harmonies of rock today.”
Don was born to singers Ike and Margaret Everly in 1937 in Kentucky, two years before his younger brother.
Sharing a love of music from an early age, the brothers began performing together when they were children on their family’s radio show, eventually rising to fame in the 1950s.
Throughout their decades-long career, the harmonizing brothers released 21 studio albums as well as a number of chart-topping hits, including “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Problems,” “Bye Bye Love” and “Wake Up Little Susie.”
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The Everly Brothers were inducted into the inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class in 1986 and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Don was also inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2019.
source: people.com
