From: Gregory Brown < Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 11:00 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 1/12/2014 Attachments: Untitled attachment 00303.docx; Untitled attachment 00306.docx; Untitled attachment 00309.docx; Untitled attachment 00312.docx; Untitled attachment 00315.docx; Not Just About Us Thomas Friedmand_NYT_January 7, 2014.docx; Untitled attachment 00318.docx; Untitled attachment 00321.docx DEAR =RIEND Saying Farewell to a Rock Icon <http://wa.w.nytimes.com/video/2014/01/04/arts/music/100000002633285/saying- farewell-=o-a-rock-icon.html> A dear friend chas=ised me for not mentioning Phil Everly in last week's offering, because he die= last weekend at the age of 74. <=r> Web Link: http://nyti.ms/1gyyD7V =A0 Phil Everly, as half of the Everly Brothers, =nspired the Beatles, Linda Ronstadt, Simon and Garfunkel and many others who recorded t=eir songs and tried to emulate their ringing vocal alchemy. During the late =950s and early 1960s, Phil Everly and his brother, Don (now 76), ranked among the elite in the music w=rld by virtue of their pitch-perfect harmonies and emotive lyrics. Singer=Phil Everly died a week ago Friday at 74 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank CA (an institution that I know intimately). Rolling Stone labeled the Everly Brothers "the most important vocal duo in rock," having influenced the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and many other acts. Along the way, they notched 35 Top 100 songs -- more than any other vocal pair. The Everly Brothers' sound -- with Don's lower register generally complementing Phil's higher =oice -- was the backbone of dozens of hits. Phil and Don were born in the business, the offspring of country and western singers Margaret and Ike Everly. The Everlys sang with their parents in live shows and on the radio. In the mid-'50s, while still teenagers, they moved to Nashville to be song=riters. In 1957, they found a Felice and Bo