Friday on my Mind 207: The Price of Love. RIP Don Everly
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 27 August 2021
Don Everly, half of pioneering rock music duo the Everly Brothers, who had an undeniable impact and influence on musical acts who succeeded them, including The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, died earlier this week. (I noted his brother Phil’s passing in 2014.)
Don was 81. (Astonishingly, the obituary in the printed edition of the Guardian said he was survived by his mother, who has therefore reached a very good age)
By the time I got to listening to music in the mid-60s the Everlys star had waned somewhat but their harmonies still had a distinctive edge.
This song, written by the brothers, was the Everlys last big hit in the UK.
Isaac Donald (Don) Everly: February 1/2/1937 –21/8/2021. So it goes.
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