An interview with the Everly Brothers II

Part II of III - Don Everly and Phil Everly were among the group of icons inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first year, 1986. This was the group of musicians that helped form the backbone of a whole new genre. The first inductees were the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke. In 1986, the year of this three-part video, Rolling Stone wrote:
"Of the ten acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, three are deceased, one's virtually forsaken rock for religion, and most of the rest seem comfortably settled into legend, far from the madding charts, champions to be cherished in dignified repose. With the exception of James Brown recently back in the pop Top Ten — only the Everly Brothers, out of this galaxy of pioneering stars, glow on at something close to their original artistic voltage."
... "Although they have always been nonpareil balladeers, the Everlys remain, at heart, root-level rock & rollers. Their 'comeback' — the 1983 reunion concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall and the two extraordinary studio albums they've released in their wake-has escaped all suggestions of a 'rock revival.'"
... "The women have come and gone; so have the drugs that disrupted their lives in the early Sixties. They've survived the years of endless gigs, the long dead nights on the road, the claustrophobic togetherness. Through it all, the wheel of musical fad and fortune spun on, oblivious to their art, to the beauty of two voices chiming as one, clicking on through Beatlemania, acid rock, the disco of the wretched Seventies. And through it all, they remained the Everlys — until one bottomed-out night in Southern California, after which they were lost even to each other for ten blood-denying years. Now they're back, older, maybe wiser, trying once again to hold the craziness at bay and to sing their song for a new generation."

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[ebfan41]

Thank you Anima3333 for posting another part of this great interview. Love hearing Don & Phil talk about their musical career and what it was like back then, the early days of Rock'Roll. 5*****

[Anima3333]

@ebfan41 I'm so glad you're enjoying them. Thank you so much for your comment ;-)

[elcash53]

Great interview with both of them! Phil is my favorite - humble, grateful and just a wonderful person.

[Gradhmhor27]

Great to see an interview of them TOGETHER!

[mishellebful]

Thanks for this...

A rare glimpse of the very "private" Everly's

I long for the music of those days..

So Sad for my generation!

[mikeeverly]

Thanks for the upload, really enjoying this interview, the boys reliving those old rock n roll stories. Fantastic :)

[byebyelove1944]

Thanks a lot ! (keepiteverly)

[mauidreamer2801]

Thank you again Anima3333 for this priceless post. I am so in awe of the Everlys and their musical talent. This is a little piece of heaven! Thank you Mary for sharing!

[socrates640]

Hi, This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for posting & ebfan41 for sharing.

[Chiselnyc]

Don & Phil are a great interview. How fun to hear about their career and what they think about various things.

[ebfan41]

@belovia50 This is from the 4DVD set Chuck Berry Hail Hail Rock &Roll. The 4th DVD has interviews not only with Don & Phil, but also Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Didley, Roy Orbison.

[pattarasila59]

That was wonderful.