Phil Everly - one half of the Everly Brothers, along with his brother Don - died as a result of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, over the weekend. He was 74.
His wife Patti told the Los Angeles Times that Phil's disease was the result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking: "We are absolutely heartbroken. He fought long and hard."
The Everly's heyday was in the 1950s and 1960s; they produced such hits as "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Bye Bye Love" and "When Will I Be Loved."
"When you talk about harmony singing in the popular music of the postwar period, the first place you start is the Everly Brothers . . . You could say they were the vocal link between all the 1950s great doo-wop groups and what would come in the 1960s with the Beach Boys and the Beatles," Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum told the Times.
Don Everly, who is two years older than Phil, is still living.
by RTT Staff Writer
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