Phil Everly Biography – Phil Everly Wiki
Phil Everly was an American musician known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. He sang along with his brother and was recognized as The Everly Brothers. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who started to promote them for national attention.
They started writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with “Bye Bye Love”, written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit No. 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including “Wake Up Little Susie”, “All I Have to Do Is Dream”, and “Problems”.
In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded “Cathy’s Clown”, written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with “That’s Old Fashioned (That’s The Way Love Should Be)” being their last top-10 hit.
Phil Everly Age
Phil was born on January 19, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and died on January 3, 2014, in Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California, United States. He was 74 qt the time of his death.
Phil Everly Wife
He had been married thrice with his last marriage being to Patrice Arnold. He married Patrice in 1999 and lived together until his death in 2014. Prior to marrying Patrice, he had been married to Patricia Mickey from 1972 to 1978 when the couple divorced. He had also married his ex-wife Jacqueline Alice Ertel in 1963 but their marriage ended in 1970.
He died of lung disease. His widow Patti blamed his death on his smoking habit, which caused him to develop the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and recounted him spending his final years having to carry oxygen tanks with him wherever he went and taking 20 different types of medications per day.
Phil Everly Children
He had two children: Jason Everly, and Chris Everly.
Phil Everly Brother
He had one sibling and singing partner, a brother named Don Everly who died on August 21, 2021. He died at his home in Nashville, aged 84. No cause of death was given.
Phil Everly Parents
He was the son of Margaret Embry Everly, and Isaac Milford “Ike” Everly, Jr. With his brother Don, the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on the radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as “The Everly Family” in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to promote them for national attention.
Phil Everly Death
He died aged 74 on January 3, 2014, in Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California, United States. His death came 16 days before his 75th birthday, of lung disease. His widow Patti blamed her husband’s death on his smoking habit, which caused him to develop the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and recounted Phil’s spending his final years having to carry oxygen tanks with him wherever he went and taking 20 different types of medications per day.
Phil Everly Cause of Death
Phil died of lung disease. His widow Patti blamed his death on his smoking habit, which caused him to develop the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and recounted Phil’s spending his final years having to carry oxygen tanks with him wherever he went and taking 20 different types of medications per day.
