The Everly Brothers 1979 album "Blue Kentucky Girl." Phil recorded more frequently, but with no chart success until the 1980s. Everly wrote "Don't Say You Don't Love Me No More" for the 1978 Clint Eastwood comedy film "Every Which Way But Loose", in which Eastwood performed it as a duet with co-star Sondra Locke. Phil also wrote "One Too Many Women In Your Life" for the 1980 sequel, "Any Which Way You Can", and played in the band which backed Locke. In 1983, Phil had UK success as a soloist with the album "Phil Everly", recorded mainly in London. Musicians on the LP
Clint Eastwood in the 1980s screened at Cannes and received a mixed reception. Spike Lee, a long term critic of Eastwood, the son of jazz bassist Bill Lee, and alto saxophonist Jackie McLean criticized the characterisation of Charlie Parker, remarking that it did not capture his true essence and sense of humor. Critic Pauline Kael published a scathing review, confessing to loathing the film and describing it as "a rat's nest of a movie", which looks as if Clint "hadn't paid his Con Ed Bill". Others, particularly jazz enthusiasts, however, praised the music of the film and Eastwood received two Golden Globes—the Cecil B. DeMille