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Looking Back with the Everlys

John Tobler, Let It Rock, December 1972

SOME OF THE earliest rock’n’roll to capture my imagination was purveyed by the Everly Brothers. "Whatcha mean?" mutters a Brylcreem-encrusted voice, emerging from a Neanderthal figure dressed in a mouldy black draped jacket, with the legend ‘Stolen from the Natural History Museum’ inscribed thereon, "they ain’t bluddy rock’n’roll. They’re a pair of —"

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