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    Sarah Ditum on Pop

    Sep 30, 2021 3 minutes

    WHEN DON EVERLY DIED in August, and Charlie Watts died three days later, the obituaries revealed that there were only four years between them.

    This felt like some fundamental disruption of chronology. Sure, they were both obviously old (Watts was 80, Everly was 84), but they seemed to belong to entirely different epochs, the Everly Brothers divided from the Rolling Stones by a generational chasm.

    Actually, the Everlys’ first UK hit was “Bye Bye Love” in 1957, and the Stones arrived with “Come On” in

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