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   EDWARD CLARK on August 24, 2021 at 9:39 am

   As a baby boomer of a certain vintage, early musical memories pre date the Beatles in 1963.
   Among my youthful
   enthusiasms (Buddy Holly, Johnny Ray, Lonnie Donagon and Cliff Richard- check my spellings) none more so were the beautifully harmonised duo, The Everly Brothers.
   Don Everly’s passing brings back a flood of early teen emotions when recalling the duo’s classics not least Cathy’s Clown which Paul McCartney confessed had influenced the Beatles first No.1, Please Please Me.
   Indeed both John and Paul
   modelled their early close harmonisation on the Everly Brother’s style. Simon and Garfunkel also admired the duo.
   Bob Dylan went as far to say “We owe these guys everything. They started it all”.
   Praise indeed but to me the brothers music is remembered for those far-off days of innocence before the world changed for ever in 1963. Ironically this was also the year that the decline in the popularity of their music began never to be rekindled apart from
   , many years later, a revival of their earlier hits of which there are many thank goodness.
   RIP Don with your brother, Phil. You gave this teenager hours and hours of sheer joy and I am
   going back to playing your wonderfully melodic songs with the greatest of pleasure.

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   Andrew Keener on August 24, 2021 at 9:51 am

   ‘Bye bye love’…. Bye bye real invention and harmonisation in pop music!

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