Phil Everly

All local performers, that's right.

But years ago, Phil Everly lived here.

Sure.

He lived here 15 years.

Number one, number two, number three, you name it, he's had one.

I think

there needs to be a statue of Phil Everly here.

I do, too.

That's just the 60s.

Then the 70s is Lou Reed, Cliff Richard, Justin Haywood, Phil Everly, John Betjeman, Malcolm Allen, John Schroeder, Paul McCartney.

Oh, I've got that John Betjeman album.

Yeah.

All of the band threw in some lyrics.

And I think it was like a joke that was shared by Phil Everly and Warren and the band just thought, oh, we'll scribble down some lyrics and put the song together.

They recorded it in 15 minutes.

And it was Warren's only top 20 single that he ever recorded.

Yeah.

Phil Everly and...

Christina Amplett.

Yeah, that's a real nice tribute, don't you think? Oh, yeah.

One night at the Opry back in 95 or 96, I did hand him a cassette.

But, you know, as far as people like Phil Everly, the Everly brothers, I mean, it was literally a random meeting at an event where somebody else introduced me.

Oh, here, we should get together.

Yeah, let's do that.

And it wasn't because they were arguing.

It just happened to be that, you know, when he got Phil...

Phil Everly in L.A., Don was going through some fever or something.

He had really bad cold.

And Phil himself couldn't travel because he had broken his leg.

So he was in almost a full body cast, you know, when he did his part.

But, you know, the magic of recording, you know, the two Everly voices were put together on the title track on Graceland.

He basically thought it was a joke and never intended to release it, but they did need songs for his album.

The research that I've found is Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers challenged Warren Zevon and guitarist Waddy Wachtel.

to write a dance track after watching the 1935 horror film werewolf of London.

Gotcha.

It is weird.

Um, You know who Phil Everly is from the Everly Brothers? Everly Brothers, yeah.

He inspired the idea for this song.

He told, they were joking around and he told them you should write a dance song based off that, Worlds of London.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah, the song began as a joke by Phil Everly to Zvon in 75.

It worked out for him.

Over two years later before the recording sessions in it for Excitable Boy.