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."
The Everly Brothers Also in 2007, Alison Krauss and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant released "Raising Sand", which included a cover of the Everlys' 1964 hit "Gone, Gone, Gone," produced by T-Bone Burnett. Four Everly Brothers tribute records were released in 2013: Billie Joe Armstrong's and Norah Jones's "Foreverly", the Chapin Sisters's "A Date with the Everly Brothers", Bonnie Prince Billy's and Dawn McCarthy's "What the Brothers Sang", and the Wieners's "Bird Dogs". The album "Marvin, Welch & Farrar" (1971), by the British-Australian band of the same name, contains a track named after Don's place of birth, "Brownie Kentucky".. The 1976 single