Happy Birthday to the late Phillip Phil Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014) American country-influenced rock and roll singer, known for steel-string guitar and close harmony singing. The music of the Everly Brothers influenced the Beatles, who referred to themselves as the English Everly Brothers when Paul and John went hitch-hiking south to win a talent competition and based the vocal arrangement of Please Please Me on Cathys Clown. Keith Richards called Don Everly one of the finest rhythm players. Paul Simon, who worked with the pair on Graceland, said the day after Phils death: Phil and Don were the most beautiful sounding duo I ever heard. Both voices pristine and soulful In 1986, the Everly Brothers were among the first 10 artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1997 the brothers were awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004. Their contribution has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Don and Phil toured the United Kingdom in 2005 and Phil appeared in 2007 on recordings with Vince Gill and Bill Medley. Also in 2007, Alison Krauss and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant released Raising Sand which included a cover of the 1964 hit Gone, Gone, Gone produced by T-Bone Burnett. On January 3, 2014, Phil Everly died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, 16 days before his 75th birthday.
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