It isn’t true for the most part.
They got along great in the 80’s after the reunion and even early 1990’s. The problems started again in the late 1990’s. They ‘retired’ about 2001 and stopped talking then. There were a few issues, Don wanted to record a new album, Phil wanted to do a UK/Australia tour but Don didn’t want to tour without a new recording and Phil was insisting if they did a new album that he be able to record one of his own songs and do lead on at least part of it so it was a stalemate.
Also, Phil was showing up drunk onstage (saw them in Vegas once and Phil could barely stand) which brought back a lot of old issues from the first time they broke up when Don was drinking heavily.
They did the “old friends” tour with Simon and Garfunkel and hadn’t spoken in a few years at that point but could just be fine on stage. That was the last time they performed together. There was no way they would have gotten back together.
Thank you. And I thought they were all forgotten, and until recently was hoping they’d put out another LP. (I guess that album you mention never came about?) Forgotten by the public, sure, but not by the artists, including those as young as Billie Joe and Nora Jones, as tributes keep pouring in. I’ve always known and argued on another thread recently that artists themselves have a better taste than their listeners, don’t listen much to their contemporaries on top of the charts, but more to giants from the history of rock, such as the Everlys.
On another note, 1960 was the year when a lot of others changed record companies. (Not always 1960, but thereabout.) Let’s see, Paul Anka, Duane Eddy, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, all of the above to the detriment of their careers. The Everlys did very well on the other hand.
I saw them in VEGAS 16 years ago, it was my b’day present from Mrs. LVD !