American musician Phil Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers, has died, aged 74, in California.
A 2011 photo of Phil Everly. Photo: AFP
His wife Patti said Everly had died of complications from lung disease, which she said was the result of a lifetime of smoking.
Phil Everly and his brother Don made up the Everly Brothers, one of the biggest pop acts of the 1950s and early 1960s.
They had a string of close-harmony hits including Wake Up Little Suzie, Cathy's Clown, Bye Bye Love, and All I Have To Do Is Dream.
The BBC reports the pair had an onstage break-up in 1973 that led to a decade-long estrangement, but Phil later told Time magazine the brothers' relationship had survived this.
