The Everly family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1953, where the brothers attended West High School.

The brothers reunited at the Royal Albert Hall in London on September 23, 1983, ending their ten-year-long hiatus.

The brothers returned to the studio as a duo for the first time in over a decade, recording the album EB '84, produced by Dave Edmunds.

A 1981 live BBC recording of "All I Have to Do Is Dream", which featured Cliff Richard and Phil sharing vocals, was a UK Top 20 hit in 1994.

When John and I first started to write songs, I was Phil and he was Don.”Don found some success on the US country charts in the mid- to late-1970s, in Nashville with his band, Dead Cowboys, and playing with Albert Lee.

Don recorded "Everytime You Leave" with Emmylou Harris on her 1979 album Blue Kentucky Girl.

Like his brother Phil, Don was married three times: first to Mary Sue Ingraham from 1957 to 1961, then Venetia Stevenson from 1962 to 1970, and finally Adela Garza from 1997, until his death.

Don had five children, including son Edan, who is also a musician and Erin, a model and ex-wife of Axl Rose.