The Everly Brothers rock groups of the 1960s. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Simon & Garfunkel developed their early styles by performing Everly songs. The Bee Gees, The Hollies, The Marmalade, and other rock and roll groups that feature harmony singing were also influenced by the Everlys. The music of the Everly Brothers influenced the Beatles, who referred to themselves as "the English Everly Brothers" when Paul McCartney and John Lennon went hitchhiking south to win a talent competition. They based the vocal arrangement of "Please Please Me" on "Cathy's Clown." Keith Richards called Don Everly "one of the finest rhythm players."
Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers song) With this cover version, Williams suggests, Harrison "sought the kind of return to bare-bones rock'n'roll simplicity Lennon had achieved with 'Instant Karma'".<ref name="Williams/Uncut">Richard Williams, "George Harrison "The Apple Years 1968–75"", "Uncut", November 2014, p. 93.</ref> Ingham also rates "Bye Bye, Love" among the best tracks on "Dark Horse", along with the title track and "Far East Man". Another advocate of Harrison's rewrite, Blogcritics' Chaz Lipp describes it as "a funky and funny comment on the dissolution of his marriage". The Everly Brothers' country success was concurrent with another country version, recorded by Webb Pierce, at the time one of country