Phil Everly: I only heard about it. I haven't seen it yet.

SM: You haven't been intimately involved in putting it together then.

PE: Just been course of conversations about it you know. They do pretty good job, and it's kinda nice to keep your hand out of it, you just stun better.

SM: I understand that Don's retired, is that right.

PE: Well yes, we've both stopped touring on the road, and we just don't do that anymore. We finished off last year. I think we've creaked around enough. We've been pretty much everywhere there is.

SM: You know that there have been an aweful lot of people in the UK who would love to see you doing it just a couple more times.

PE: Well, we thought we might, but you know, I think that not only your body wears out, I think the voices would go first, but it seems with rock 'n roll your knees go you know.

SM: But I imagine you still have that intuitive harmony sense which you always had.

PE: It still like to sing, in fact it's kinda hard not to just play. What is really nice about not touring is that sort of having to stand and deliver. One thing we've always prided ourselves in doing is doing it the best we could anytime we stood and did it and when you have to worry about it too much it gets a little harder when you get a little older. It's a little harder travelling around.I do miss two of our boys, Phil Crannon and Pete Winfield, who are from England. I miss hanging out with the gang...you know 'cos we've all been together on this last run about 18 years. That part I'm going to really really miss. But we see them socially, so that's OK, but we still kinda miss the camerardarie that we get on stage. That part is really gonna be missed.

SM: Your close harmony style influenced many performers. Who did you listen to? Who inspired you to sing like that?

Music: 'til I kissed you

PE: Our main teacher was our father, Ike Everly, and he sort of raised us on, I think, primary influences for people that were known, were fairly obscure country singers like The Delmore Brothers, and the York Brothers. They were kind of a traditional southern brothers singing acts and quite common. My dad had sung with his brothers when younger, so dad is really the man that got us going in the right direction, and of course we worked in and early family show, and that was our real training ground.

SM: So it was in the genes really Phil?

PE: I think so, you know, both of my sons play, and Don's son plays and so I guess it just goes on and on, just, generations and that.

SM: So to all the listeners in the UK, who having heard that you were going to be in the programme have been asking what are the chances of your coming back, either on your own or with Don, what do we tell 'em?

PE: I don't think I am going to be playing but you know every time I say anything it winds up as being just the opposite, so I'm saying I think probably we won't be, but we you never can tell, something special will come up and we might do it, but I don't think we'll be doing it to the extent. When we came to England all the time we always tried to travel the whole country and go to the people, and I think that is a little beyond us now, a little hard. My best friend Tony Slater lives over in England so I come over socially anyway, but maybe I'll drop by that way, I don't know.

SM: Just trying to select one of the tracks from this album to play, 'cos we could just pick a track and do anything with it, 'cos they're all so well known. I think I want to play Bye Bye Love, if that's o...

PE: The first one, that's always the best.

SM: It's a cracker. I mean do you remember recording this. What are your thoughts on this song now?

PE: The whole of the session was almost like, it's like instantly like yesterday, you know, it, I mean, we came out of that session, we kinda thought we had something, but we had no idea it was really going to make a difference, and we actually were glad to be recording anything. I was happy to make the $64 that we got for recording. And having that, knowing that we had a little money meant something to me. But the day was unforgetable.

SM: What did you make of the Simon & Garfunkle version?

PE: I like it. We happen to like the Simon & Garfunkle anyway, but the,.. I was glad to hear another version of something that we have done. It's just one of those interesting things, when you hear someone else do another, ..the variances of them, just a little, a little,...the difference in the voices,...it's kinda interesting.

SM: And good for the royalties.

PE: Well, it doesn't hurt, does it?

SM: He, he, he,..er..OK Phil, we gonna play your version of Bye Bye Love from the new definitive collection, and it's been great to talk to you...thank you for your time.

PE: It's been my pleasure, thank you.

Song: Bye Bye Love.

SM: $64 is all he got for this. Astonishing, but great to talk to Phil Everly, the definitive Everly Brothers, new entry at number 12.