Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973
IT'S ALMOST eleven years since the first serious rumours suggesting the breakup of the Everly Brothers appeared. What with that, and a much-noted coolness between the brothers over the past couple of years, no one was terribly surprised when they announced the final parting of the ways last week.
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