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THE EVERLYS STORM TO STARDOM
On 4 March 1957, The Everly Brothers appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York in a landmark performance (pictured) and the tight-harmonising Don and Phil had their first hit with Bye Bye Love. By October 1957, Don and Phil had scored their first No.1 with Wake Up Little Susie and were on the classic rock’n’roll roadshow that also featured Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, the Crickets (fronted by the as-yet-unbilled Buddy Holly), The Drifters, Eddie Cochran, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, Paul Anka and more. What a line-up! The tour was lively, but it was an innocent time for the siblings compared to the craziness that would follow. As Phil Everly told Rolling Stone in 1986. “In the 50s, we were all pretty sane, compared to the 60s. And New York was great then, too. I remember walking through Times Square with Chuck Berry, and him buying us our first cheesecake at Lindy’s.”