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Recent Event Highlights: Bye Bye Love, The Everly Family Show, and 19 more...

Created by oprice on Mar 18, 2011

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• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  1986

  The Everly Brothers are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the first induction dinner, held in New York City. Neil Young is their presenter

• Reunited
  Sep 23, 1983

  On September 23,1983, the Everly Brothers made peace with each other and reunited as a singing duo at the Royal Albert Hall in England

• Spilt
  1973

  On July 14, 1973, midway through a concert in Knots Berry Farms in Los Angeles their manager came on the stage and stopped the show. This led to their split.

• ‘Roots’
  1968

  In 1968, they released the album ‘Roots’

• ‘Price of Love’
  1965

  In 1965, their release ‘Price of Love’ reached number two in the U.K.

• ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’
  1964

  ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ a single which reached the Top 40.

• Don got married
  1962

  Don married starlet Venetia Stevenson at Camp Pendleton, California

• 'That’s Old Fashioned’
  1962

  'That’s Old Fashioned’ in 1962 was their last Top Ten hit

• Don attempted suicide
  1961

  Don attempted suicide and underwent electro-shock therapy

• When Will I Be Loved
  1960

  #8 hit single for the Everly Brothers

• Wake up Suise
  1959

  When it was first relased

• Take a Message to Mary
  1959

• Bird Dog
  1958

  #1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart

• All I Have to Do Is Dream
  Mar 6, 1958

  Was first recored

• Bye Bye Love
  Jul 1, 1957

  1st hit song

• First gig
  1955

  In the mid-'50s, they made a brief stab at conventional Nashville country with Columbia.

• Family accepted a job
  1952

  During the summer of 1952, the family accepted a job at WIKY in Evansville, Indiana.

• The Everly Family Show
  1950

  1950 the radio show had become known as "The Everly Family Show."

• Radio show
  1945

  Don and Phil began to perform on their parents' live radio show

• First music industry
  1942

  Ike Everly had a show on KMA and KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa, in the 1940s, with his wife Margaret and two young sons. Singing on the show gave the brothers their first exposure to the music industry

• Phil
  Jan 19, 1939

  Born on January 19,1939 Chicago, Illinois

• Don
  Feb 1, 1937

  Born February 1, 1937 Powderly, ,Kentucky

• The Everly Brothers Parents
  Aug 31, 1935

  Ike Everly got married to Margaret Embry on August 31, 1935