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John Oates Is Pretty Sure Hall & Oates Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together

By Andy Greene

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When John Oates spoke to Rolling Stone in January 2020, he explained how balancing his time between massive Hall & Oates concerts with his longtime creative partner Daryl Hall and intimate solo gigs provided him with a dream life. “It keeps me balanced,” he said. “[When I tour solo], I carry my own gear. I show up with my guitar in my hand and put the amp in the back of my car. It’s real and I love it. Then I go out there with Daryl and we’re flying around in private planes and playing the Garden and doing all that. I love it.”

Oates wasn’t willing to discuss details of the ongoing legal battle when he spoke with RS recently about his new solo LP Reunion . But he did explain why his attitude toward Hall & Oates shifted so dramatically.

“I’ll tell you what changed,” he says. “During the pandemic, there were no more private planes. There were no more arena shows or even acoustic shows. It gave me a chance to step back. I had a chance to reevaluate things. My wife and I decided it was time to give back. We started the Oates Song Fest for Feeding America, and we fed 350,000 families with that. And then I was asked to do Movember , which was a men’s health movement. I just got out of the mode of getting back on stage with the big band and the big production.”

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In his perfect world, the business dispute with Hall — what Oates calls “a very boring business issue” — would never have become public. “There’s always disputes when people are famous. People are always fascinated about the dynamics of a duo,” he says. “And to be quite honest, Daryl and I have a business partnership, and there was some things about the business that we disagreed with, which happens all the time in business. And we’re going to work it out.” (A rep for Hall did not respond to Rolling Stone ‘s request for comment.)

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According to Oates, he was also unaware that Hall was touring America with Elvis Costello later this year until RS informed him of the news. “I’m really glad that, in a way, this situation has given him the opportunity to be himself,” Oates says. “And however he wants to show himself and perform and be creative as an individual, I think it’s great, because that’s what I want to do.”

Despite all the current drama, Hall & Oates never formally broke up — they just stopped booking concert dates — and Wikipedia lists the duo’s active years as “1970-present.” Should an official end date be added to the career of one of the most successful pop duos of all time? “You can ask Daryl the same question,” Oates says. “But, yes. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve moved on. I feel like I have a new lease on my creative life.”

He then picks up a book and begins reading a passage. “I’m basically a Taoist,” he says. “And I’m going to read you something that was in my daily meditation today. It says, ‘The rule for those who follow Tao is this, ‘Walk the path together as long as you can, and when you must part, never hold your companion back.'”

“That’s how I feel about things,” he continues. “A good friend of mine said something to me when this was all starting. He said, ‘John, you were a musician before you met Daryl, and you’re still a musician. You’re an individual.’ And Daryl and I have always called ourselves Daryl Hall and John Oates, because we always wanted to be perceived as two individuals who work together. That was very important to us. If you look at the albums, you’ll see that on every album. And so this is the ultimate expression of that.”

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“I’m always open for that,” he says. “Daryl Hall is an amazing individual. He is one of the great, great songwriters of all time, and without a doubt, one of the great singers of all time. I would never say anything negative about him. But we have a different strategy for our lives, and we have a different strategy for our business lives as well as our personal lives. And that’s that, so be it. We’re old guys. We deserve to be allowed to do whatever we want to do.”

Does he hope those old guys can one day perform one last song together to end the story on a positive note? “I have no idea,” he says. “But I don’t see it. I really don’t. Life is funny though. You never know what kind of curve it will throw you.”

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He continued, “I don’t like to live in the past. I make the analogy of what it’s like when you go to a great museum and you’re really excited to go and see all the beautiful paintings or the exhibits or whatever it might be, and then near the end, your feet start to hurt and you say, ‘You know what? I can’t wait to get out of here.’ That’s kind of how I feel about it.”

Hall and Oates formed the duo Philadelphia in 1970. During their peak years of 1974-91 as Hall & Oates, the pair reached the U.S. Top 40 with 29 of their 33 singles charting on Billboard’s Hot 100.

“There was no time for reflection. It was a lot of business demands, a lot of heavy demands… Daryl and I were at the top of the pop world. We had number-one record after number-one record. We were traveling around the world constantly. Everyone thinks that that was probably the high point of my life, but to be honest with you, it actually wasn’t my favorite time.”

He added, “I have moved on. It’s just a matter of living in my present.”

Six of the duo’s singles reached No. 1: “Rich Girl” (1977), “Kiss on My List” (1980), the two 1981 releases “Private Eyes” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)”, “Maneater” (1982) and “Out of Touch” (1984). Seven of their albums have been RIAA-certified platinum and six others gold.

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Hall and Oates tour 2022: Where to buy tickets, schedule, dates

Updated: Aug. 04, 2022, 10:07 a.m. |
Published: Aug. 04, 2022, 6:30 a.m.

Daryl Hall, left, and John Oates, have just a handful of concerts together this year. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Listen up, Rich Girls and Maneaters — we’re about to make your dreams come true.

Hitmaking duo Hall and Oates are returning to the road for five shows .

That includes a concert at Atlantic City’s Mark G Etess Arena at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Friday, Oct. 7.

Tickets for all five gigs on the short stint are available on StubHub , Vivid Seats , TicketNetwork , Ticketmaster and TicketCity .

You can find Hall and Oates’ complete calendar including all dates, venues, show start times and links to buy tickets here .

Hall and Oates also are slated to headline Indianapolis’ inaugural All IN Music Festival on Sept. 3-4 with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty and The Four Tops.

Then, on Sept. 16-18, they’ll play at Redondo Beach, California’s BeachLife Ranch Festival with The Lumineers and Dierks Bentley.

Plus, Daryl Hall has a few extra shows on the side playing with his Daryl’s House Band. On those select shows, special guest Todd Rundgren will join him.

Fans can find tickets for all of Hall’s solo concerts here .

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The duo — which last performed on Feb. 28, 2020 at New York’s Madison Square Garden — has plans for a 25-date summer tour, opening Aug. 7 in Mansfield, Mass., and including regular HoagieNation festival two nights later in Philadelphia, where Hall and Oates partnered during 1970. Squeeze will be opening through Oct. 1, with KT Tunstall on board for most of the shows.

“Excitement is too easy a word,” Hall told Billboard about the prospect of getting back on the road. “I’m many things. I’m excited about it. I’m apprehensive. I’m nervous. I’m confident. I’m paranoid. I’m everything at once — and when I hit the stage I think it’ll probably be as if I never left.”

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Hall predicts fans will feel the same way in short order. “I actually would use the word rejoicing, like ‘We’re here! We’re back in this again! We can do this!’ I think it’ll be that kind of positive feeling and ecstatic feeling. I think once it starts happening, it’s gonna be great.

“My music tends to make people feel good — even the depressing songs make you feel good,” Hall adds with a laugh. “And the familiarity is a strong point. It adds to the commonality of it and the goodwill and the good feelings.”

Hall, for one, will be shaking off some cobwebs from the shutdown — or, as he terms it, “hibernation.” “Some artists did a lot of writing, a lot of recording — I didn’t do any of that,” he says. “I can’t say ideas didn’t come to me. Of course they did. But I felt like I just needed to shut down and wait for the other side to become apparent, because I thought anything I’d write or do during (the pandemic) would be irrelevant. But now I’m ready to go again.”

Oates, meanwhile, kept himself busy with a variety of projects — including the virtual Song Fest 7908 to benefit Feeding America (which Hall contributed a performance for), contributing songs to a friend’s upcoming feature film and working up material for a possible follow-up to his 2018 solo album Arkansas . “This has been a busy year for me,” he says. “I ended up collaborating with a few different people. It was a good time to work on some different music and try things.”

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But a casualty of the layoff may be plans for a new Hall & Oates album — their first since 2006’s Home For Christmas and first of all-original material since Do It For Love in 2003. The pair began talking about the project during early 2020 but are explicitly “not sure” about it now. “Things have changed,” Hall says. “I’m really not sure what’s going to happen. I don’t know if I’m gonna do a solo record next, or do a (Hall & Oates) record. I don’t actually know, so I’m just gonna shelve that thought and really lock into these shows.”

Oates adds that, “Daryl was talking about recording; He found a producer in Holland, a young guy, he really liked. And then COVID hit and it was over. The whole thing just came to a grinding halt. We will resume at some point with some sort of recording project, but how it manifests itself and who we work with and how we work… who knows. We’ll just have to regroup and see how that’s gonna work.”

Daryl Hall & John Oates upcoming tour dates are as follows: * w/ Squeeze ^ w/ KT Tunstall

August 5 – Xfinity Center – Mansfield, MA *^

August 7 – HoagieNation – TD Pavilion at the Mann – Philadelphia, PA *

August 9 – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion – Gilford, NH *^

August 11 – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theatre – Wantagh, NY *^

August 13 – PNC Bank Arts Center – Holmdel, NJ *^

August 15 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center – Saratoga Springs, NY *^

August 19 – Ruoff Music Center – Noblesville, IN *^

August 21 – DTE Energy Music Theatre – Clarkston, MI *^

August 23 – Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH *^

August 26 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheater – Tinley Park, IL *^

August 28 – American Family Insurance Amphitheater – Milwaukee, WI *^

August 30 – Xcel Energy Center – St. Paul, MN *^

September 1 – Ball Arena – Denver, CO *^

September 18 – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD *^

September 20 – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater – Tampa, FL *^

September 22 – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Hollywood, FL *

September 24 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA *^

September 26 – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion – Woodlands, TX *^

September 28 – Dickies Arena – Fort Worth, TX *^

October 1 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA *^

November 6 – Fantasy Springs Resort Casino – Indio, CA

November 9 – Maui Arts & Cultural Center – Kahului, HI

November 13 – Neal S. Blaisdell Center – Honolulu, HI

December 3 – Foxwoods – Mashantucket, CT

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The five solo albums Daryl Hall has released, starting with “Sacred Songs” in 1980, include two singles that landed in the Top 40. By comparison, Hall and John Oates have had 29 hit songs, making them the bestselling duo of all time — a fact Hall disputes, but more on that in a minute.

Solo albums from singers in hugely popular groups don’t always sell well — for every Phil Collins, there’s a Mick Jagger and a Scott Weiland. Fans seem to almost resent a singer who separates from their band, but also, singers sometimes use solo albums to restlessly explore offbeat sounds.

Hall, for example, has recorded with an array of musicians ranging from King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp to Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and funk guitarist Wah Wah Watson. When he compiled the highlights of those albums for a new solo compilation, “BeforeAfter,” he selected songs specifically “so people would understand that my body of work consists of — hell, all kinds of things,” he said, calling from the kitchen of his London home.

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The 30 songs he compiled include eight from “Live From Daryl’s House,” a web series and TV show he started in 2007 from his home in upstate New York, where he and his band perform with guest stars, including Wyclef Jean, Sammy Hagar, Smokey Robinson, Cheap Trick and the O’Jays. One “Live From Daryl’s House” highlight is his duet with Todd Rundgren on “Can We Still Be Friends.” Hall and Rundgren recently announced a joint tour, starting April 1, which features separate sets from each, and then a few songs performed together.

Daryl Franklin Hohl (he changed the spelling of his last name) grew up in Pottstown, just outside Philadelphia, at a time when the city was flowering into a hotbed of soul music. One Sunday afternoon, when he was performing at a local record hop, rival gangs began shooting at one another, and Hall and his group, the Temptones, hurried to a service elevator where he met John Oates, who was escaping with his group, the Masters. Hall and Oates became friends, then roommates, then bandmates.

Even over the phone, Hall’s self-confidence is palpable. He talked humorously but forcefully about being a young-looking 75-year-old, how he escaped being eaten by a jaguar and why it’s “quite annoying” to be part of a music duo.

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While you were compiling “BeforeAfter,” you spent a lot of time with your solo records. Does your solo work have a different character than Hall & Oates? It has to do with the people I worked with. And I worked with some pretty amazing people on those solo records, as I did with Hall & Oates records.

It’s not dissimilar to “Live From Daryl’s House.” It’s different collaborations and combinations of people, but I sort of hold it all. I’m the vortex. I’m in the middle, and it all revolves around me.

On your first solo album, “Sacred Songs” and “Something in 4/4 Time” got radio airplay. But I noticed on one streaming service that of all the songs on the album, the one with the most spins is “ Babs and Babs ,” an almost eight-minute song with no chorus. Does that surprise you? [laughs] No, because it’s an interesting song. It’s not a pop song. None of my songs are — they’re just songs.

“Babs and Babs” is a series of verses. It was about the two sides of your brain, the creative side and the analytical side. Babs and Babs are the right and left lobes, and the song is about the brain talking to itself. I think my audience, especially the audience that likes “Sacred Songs,” appreciate the interesting factor, as opposed to the accessible factor.

Is there an alternate universe where, after you and Robert Fripp work on “Sacred Songs,” you become the singer in King Crimson? There may be an alternate universe. I’ve been in contact with Robert — I’ve never really lost contact — and we’re talking about doing more stuff together, so hahaha.

What does the title, “BeforeAfter,” mean? If you think about it, what is “before after”? It’s now. It also encompasses the fact that the things that happened before affect now, and the things that will happen in the future affect now.

When you were listening to your solo albums, were there songs that made you think, “I forgot how good this is”? That happened a lot. I was just with Dave Stewart in the Bahamas, and we listened to [1986’s] “ Right as Rain ,” which is one of Dave’s favorites from “Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine,” which he co-produced. I’d forgotten how good the production is. And there’s so many songs I could say the same thing about. I guess not only was I on fire, but all the people I was working with were on fire.

Joni Mitchell sings an amazing harmony on “Right as Rain.” How did that come about? I used to know Joni very well. When Dave and I make music, we laugh a lot. On that night, I found out Joni was in town, in London, and asked her to come to the studio and just fool around. She wound up playing drums and everybody was switching instruments. I can picture her singing those background vocals, waving her arms around with a beret on. It was really a magical evening.

When you do “Daryl’s House,” is there a song of yours that guests ask to sing most frequently? A lot of artists want to play “ Rich Girl ” or “You Make My Dreams.” And I always say, “No, you’ve got to go deep. This show is not about the obvious; you have to delve into the catalog.” With “BeforeAfter,” I tried to showcase those songs.

Why aren’t there more duos in music? Is being in a duo harder than being in a group? The truth is that most groups are duos. What are the Rolling Stones? Jagger and Richards. What’s the Who? Daltrey and Townshend. Lennon and McCartney is a little bit of a stretch, because George was in there — but if you watch the [“Get Back”] documentary, it was Lennon and McCartney. All duos. The most common thing in music is a creative partnership, especially one formed as kids, as a two of us against the world kind of thing.

So maybe Hall & Oates aren’t the bestselling duo of all time. Maybe it’s the Beatles. I used to say that. People would say “You’re the bestselling duo of all time,” and I was like, “We’re just another band. You’ve given me the wrong appellation.”

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Is there a mystique about duos? Whatever the mystique is, I don’t like it. John and I call our touring company Two-Headed Monster, because it is that. It’s very annoying to be a duo, because people always say, “Oh, you’re the tall one, you’re the short one. You’re the one that sings, you’re the one that doesn’t sing.” You’re always compared to the other person. It works with comedy entities, like Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, but with music, it’s f— up, actually.

In what way? Everything you do is juxtaposed against another person. Try doing that sometime. I don’t want to use the word “emasculating,” because that’s male, but it takes away your individuality.

And people seem to speculate about duos in a way they don’t with bands. “Those two guys can’t possibly like one another.” There you go. That’s an extension of what I’m talking about. “If they’re not working, they must be fighting.” It’s quite annoying.

When I looked up your age, I realized you and Donald Trump are both 75. How come you don’t look your age? [laughs] I love it! I think about that all the time. I live right, man. I have the right headspace. If I was a fat, evil f— like him, I’d turn into Dorian Gray’s picture too.

My only advice is, have the right mother and father. My mom is 98. And my father died at 96, and he looked 66.

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Even in your sad songs, there’s a quality in your voice that feels like optimism, or maybe resolve. Do you agree? I know exactly what you mean. A Hall & Oates song like “ She’s Gone ” is the ultimate example. We’re almost jubilant. I’m shouting, “She’s gone!” and it sounds like it’s the greatest thing that ever happened. I’ve done that a lot in my songs. “Resolve” is a good way to put it.

My favorite Hall & Oates song is “ Out of Touch .” In the verse, you sing “Soul really matters to me,” and in the second verse, you follow that with an ad lib, “Too much.” What’s the purpose of the ad lib? Again, I was being ambiguous. “We’re soul alone and soul really matters to me. Too much.” Like, that can hurt. When you’re a sensitive, creative person, things are more intense. Both good and bad.

When Hall & Oates were on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1985, you were quoted as saying, “I’m just about the best singer I know” and you called Hall & Oates the Beatles of the 1980s. You later said you were misquoted. Did the article create any lasting damage to your reputation or image? No. It created temporary damage, and f— [Rolling Stone founder] Jann Wenner and the horse he rode in on.

What was the temporary damage? Just a perception of me and Oates, separately and together, as something we weren’t. Jann Wenner loved destroying careers. He’d pick somebody to knock down, and we wound up on the knockdown side for a while. But I prevailed, and the ending turned out a lot differently.

For instance, Wenner was one of the founders of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which you and John were inducted into a few years ago . We were reluctantly inducted. [laughs] I forgive, but I don’t forget.

You’ve said “Live From Daryl’s House” was inspired by the early days of MTV. But you didn’t enjoy making music videos in the ‘80s, did you? We had a song called “Maneater,” and the director said, “Let’s bring in a jaguar.” They brought in a caged jaguar, and it was the evilest, nastiest thing I’ve ever seen. They drove a metal staple into the ground, put a wire on it, and attached the wire to the jaguar’s collar so it couldn’t do anything. Somebody f— up and the next thing we knew, it was running amok and people were screaming. It went up into the rafters of the studio we were using, and nobody knew how to get it down. I said, “F— this,” and left them with the jaguar.

It took them, I think, all night to get it down. They probably had to shoot it, I don’t know. That pretty much describes the MTV era of video making. Talk about excess, oh my God. [laughs] Of course, I paid for it all.

When will there be a new Daryl Hall and John Oates record? Well, that’s inappropriate to this conversation. But I have no idea. I don’t have any plans to work with John. I mean, whatever. Time will tell.

That’s surprising. I’ve seen recent stories where you said the two of you were working on a record together. That was before the pandemic. Perceptions changed, life changed, everything changed. I’m more interested in pursuing my own world. And so is John.

That takes me back to what I was saying about duos. I had to say, “And so is John.” I couldn’t just say what I think, I had to add what he thinks. That’s the f— up part of being a duo.

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Their 80s hits are now hitting the billion-streams mark, but the duo’s genre-resistant pop often chafed against the zeitgeist. They recall the triumphs – and makeup choices – of the past 50 years

I ’m half an hour into my interview with John Oates when he insists I need to look at YouTube as a matter of extreme urgency. “You’ve never seen this?” he says, incredulous, down the phone from his home in Nashville. “My friend, I don’t know you very well, but you’re missing a great moment in music history. Your life will change. Your perceptions of us will never be the same again.”

This is the 1973 video Daryl Hall & John Oates made for She’s Gone , the standout track from their album Abandoned Luncheonette, and a staple of their live sets to this day. It’s certainly striking viewing. The pair are slumped, poker-faced, in armchairs (“That’s the furniture from our apartment,” notes Oates). Daryl Hall is resplendent in a pair of platform sandals; Oates is wearing a bow tie and dress shirt with no sleeves. A woman walks in front of the camera – this, Oates informs me, is the songwriter Sara Allen, Hall’s former partner and the co-author of a string of Hall & Oates hits – followed by a man with a moustache wearing a sparkly devil costume. The latter helps Oates into a penguin suit dinner jacket with an enormous pair of flippers attached to the arms, in which he listlessly mimes a guitar solo. All three march around the armchairs together, then walk off.

Perhaps understandably, the local TV show for which they recorded the video declined to show it (“They called our record company and said: ‘Who do these guys think they are? They are mocking us! They will never appear on TV again!’”), but you can see why Oates has chosen to exhume it. For one thing, it points up the sheer oddness of Hall & Oates in the 1970s, of which more later. And for another, as Oates suggests, it helps to explain why the duo so successfully navigated the 80s. Many of their 70s peers struggled in the new world of music videos and synthesisers, but Hall & Oates thrived: if you’d been filmed marching around a set of armchairs wearing flippers, you were ready for MTV.

The MTV years were the commercial apex of Hall & Oates’s career. In the 80s, they had five consecutive platinum albums and five US No 1 singles, a relentless succession of the kind of impermeable hits that continue to rack up millions of streams and ensure that the duo still play arenas: Maneater, Out of Touch, I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do), Private Eyes.

As if to prove the point about their vast continued popularity, they are reissuing the 7in of their 1981 single You Make My Dreams for Record Store Day this weekend. It wasn’t even released as a UK single at the time, but developed an afterlife owing to its use in the 2009 film (500) Days of Summer : 12 years later, it’s by far their biggest track. It was played after Joe Biden’s victory speech last November, a month after it notched up its one billionth global stream, a state of affairs that seems to baffle the duo.

Hall, primarily the singer, who is on the phone at home in New York state, suggests the song’s success has something to do with its “aggressive positivity”, but admits: “I’m not really sure, that’s the truth.” Oates, primarily the guitarist, offers a lengthy and eloquent discourse on the pan-generational appeal of classic rock, then shrugs: “It’s just a fuckin’ great groove and a simple, direct statement. I could have cut all the crap I just said and said that.”

They met while both fleeing a fight that had broken out in a Philadelphia dance hall in 1967. Oates was a folkie, fond of country and blues. Hall had served a remarkable musical apprenticeship on Philadelphia’s “very intense, very racially integrated” soul scene. As a teenager, he was friends with soft soul bands the Delfonics and the Stylistics; at the city’s answer to Harlem’s Apollo, the Uptown Theater, he hung out with the Temptations and Smokey Robinson. When his own band, the Temptones, won a local talent competition, the prize was to record a single with producers Gamble and Huff , who would shortly change the face of pop with the symphonic soul and disco on their Philadelphia International label.

Ken Gamble attempted to lure Hall to the new label as an artist and writer, but he chose to move to New York with Oates. “We were trying to forge our own version of the Philly sound and we thought that the only way we could do that was by separating ourselves from Gamble and Huff – they were doing what they were doing, and we wanted to do something different.”

They released their debut album in 1972, but, from the outside at least, the next eight years of their career look like fascinating chaos. They had huge hits – the aforementioned She’s Gone, Sara Smile and Rich Girl – but they also had what Hall calls “a lethal ability to experiment”. One minute they sounded like a pop-soul band; the next they were releasing War Babies, produced by Todd Rundgren and backed by his prog band Utopia, home to songs with titles such as Johnny Gore and the “C” Eaters, and War Baby Son of Zorro. One minute they were on black R&B radio, the next they were on tour with Lou Reed in full Rock ’n’ Roll Animal mode (“a strange cat, man … his audience was even stranger, like … junkie-wannabes”).

They looked like regular 70s singer-songwriters, but were absolutely plastered in makeup on the cover of their 1975 album, Daryl Hall & John Oates . “That was [makeup artist] Pierre La Roche ,” says Oates. “He was responsible for Bowie’s look, he worked with Jagger. I remember sitting with him at dinner; he was a very flamboyant character and he said: ‘I will immortalise you!’ It’s the only album cover anyone ever asks us about, so I guess he was right.” In 1977, Hall made Sacred Songs, an Aleister Crowley-inspired solo album, with Robert Fripp, which so horrified their record label, RCA, that it refused to release it for three years.

At least part of the problem was that, for all their Philadelphia roots and their LA recording sessions, they were spending their spare time hanging out on New York’s downtown 70s music scene. “The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Television – it was all happening,” says Oates. “I was out every night, going to the Mercer Arts Center and Max’s Kansas City … we couldn’t avoid the influence of it. We wanted to remain true to who we were, but we didn’t want to ignore the zeitgeist of what was happening in our lives. And so that’s what we tried to do.”

Both agree that they truly hit paydirt when they were allowed to produce themselves and record with their live band: the result was 1980’s Voices, from whence You Make My Dreams and the US No 1 Kiss on My List sprang. In the late 70s, Hall had been one of the few straight white artists to publicly call out the Disco Sucks movement (“Because I straddled the line, because of my background, I knew it for what it was: a racist thing, totally racist”). On Voices, he and Oates minted a pop style that was equal parts soul and new wave rock, a pretty ballsy move in the pre-Thriller America of 1980, where the genres were sharply divided. Certainly, Michael Jackson took an interest, later telling Oates he loved to dance to I Can’t Go for That, and that its bassline inspired Billie Jean.

“One of the things I don’t think we get full credit for is opening up the minds of commercial radio for that possibility,” says Oates. “We had our early success with black radio – the African American community had been as big a part, if not a bigger part of our success as anything. So to us it was normal, that was the music we made, it appealed to a wide variety of people. I think we opened the door to more acceptance of what they defined as crossover music.” He sighs. “It’s all bullshit, those definitions, but nevertheless.”

Hall & Oates with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendrick in 1985

The pair’s zenith may have come in 1985. They were asked to headline the reopening of the Apollo in Harlem, and insisted they would only perform if David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations shared the stage: a few weeks later, Ruffin and Kendricks also shared Hall & Oates’s slot at the US leg of Live Aid. They began to feel they had achieved all they wanted to achieve. Hall talks about the Apollo gig “completing the circle … we felt like we had gone all the way around”. Oates clearly enjoyed their success in time-honoured rock-star style – he took up motor racing and began flying the duo to gigs in his own plane – but concedes that he found “the act of becoming far more interesting than the victory lap”.

After 1990’s tellingly titled Change of Season, they more-or-less walked away: Hall & Oates have released only four albums in the past 30 years. “We almost felt like, what could possibly be the upside of where we are now?” says Oates. “If we release another record and it doesn’t go to No 1, is that a failure? We just felt like we needed something else. I personally needed to step away from writing, recording, touring in order to do that. I got divorced, sold everything I owned, moved to Colorado and started my life over in the mountains.”

He returned to his musical roots, playing country and folk, while collaborating with everyone from Dan the Automator and Prince Paul’s hip-hop duo Handsome Boy Modelling School to The Bird and the Bee , super-producer Greg Kurstin’s indie band. It’s evidence, like the steadily declining age of audiences whenever Hall & Oates chose to tour together, that the duo’s critical stock had begun rising dramatically in the decades since their 80s hits.

Daryl Hall and John Oates in concert in 1985

Hall, meanwhile, worked with the funk duo Chromeo and appeared on UK dance act Nero’s chart-topping debut album, and started Live from Daryl’s House , a YouTube series with a wildly eclectic list of guest performers that has proved immensely successful, spawning a restaurant/club in New York state. He says he started it, with a certain weird prescience, after some Hall & Oates shows were cancelled as a result of 2003’s Sars epidemic. “I thought: what if this happens on a larger scale? Maybe I should figure out a way, if there ever comes a point where I can’t travel, that I can bring the world to me.”

He thinks the sheer range of guests involved – soul legends, singer songwriters, rappers, rock bands – helps explain, “maybe for the first time”, where he and indeed Hall & Oates were coming from. “Not easy to peg, not easy to categorise,” he says. “I blame myself, really, more than anybody, more than John. Live From Daryl’s House is a way I can explain that musical language, where I can have all these completely different musical styles and swim in any of those waters. And that sort of explained me. Before that, I absolutely think people were confused.”

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Hall & Oates Are “Back Together Again!” Celebrating Their New Tour With Some Classic Songs And Tour Set List!

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Daryl Hall & John Oates Are Performing Live Again!

Exciting news for fans as the duo are once again performing live – and here is the set list!

Of particular interest to me was song #9 – an album track from the 70’s that showcases their incredible harmonies!

Here they are in a vintage TV clip performing the song:

I know that some fans are complaining in online forums for the lack of songs from the 70’s and 90’s…like this classic from 1979:

“Wait For Me” is a great song – could they mix it up a bit more?

Sure – maybe even include this neglected gem:

“So Close” is both the opening AND closing track from the “Change Of Season” album in 1990 – and this music video begins with the slow version before kicking into the fast one – I love this song and video:

Let the debate continue about what is and isn’t being performed – very few songs from John, and no Daryl solo songs at all….we’ll see if future tours change that!

Well, I hope everyone who sees them this time out has a blast at the show – here is a look at the show I saw in 2017:

My wife and I were in the second row – a perfect view as they played for almost two hours…here’s their performance of the terrific hit “Out Of Touch”:

I’ve shared many stories about the duo – I am especially a fan of some of their lesser-known song.

Here are some of my favorite Daryl Hall and John Oates album tracks:

Sing Along With Daryl Hall & John Oates! Five Great Album Tracks! “Out Of Touch” Live!

In a recent interview, Hall referred to a reviewer as “an asshole” for giving a tepid review of this album:

Well, considering this is almost 50 years old, he really holds a grudge!

That said, he’s right of course – it’s a masterwork and here’s a look at the album track by track:

Daryl Hall & John Oates – These Classic “Sunday Songs” Showcase “Abandoned Luncheonette” And “She’s Gone!”

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NEW YORK (AP) — John Oates of Hall & Oates, the multi-platinum soul-pop duo behind hits like ″Private Eyes,” ″Rich Girl” and “Maneater,” is eager to return to concert stages again and prepared for an extra loud reaction when he does.

“I think there’s definitely going to be an energy there that is very unique. No one’s ever experienced a time like this in our modern world,” he tells The Associated Press. “Quite honestly, this is the longest I have not played live in my entire professional career.”

Hall & Oates had planned to tour in 2020 but only managed one stop at Madison Square Garden in late February before COVID-19 restrictions led to the nation's concert venues being shuttered.

“We really had a cool show planned. And so because we had invested time and energy into that show, we kind of just put it in mothballs, basically. And now we’re bringing it back up because no one’s really seen it,” said Oates.

The new tour kicks off Thursday in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and hits such cities as Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Denver, Los Angeles and Honolulu, before ending with a two-night stand Dec. 3-4 in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Squeeze and KT Tunstall will join the duo on certain concerts.

The tour kicks off just as the delta variant of the virus is spreading rapidly and Oates says he and the band will take it day-by-day. “Every day is going to be a new day,” he says. “You know, we don’t know what the world’s going to deliver to us in the next month. We’ll roll with it and take what we can get.”

Since the early ’70s, Oates and Daryl Hall ’s brand of Philadelphia-born “blue-eyed soul” has scored six No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including “Kiss on My List” and ″I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).” They also achieved six platinum albums and many more Top 10 singles like “Sara Smile” and ″She’s Gone.”

Fans can expect all the hits played live. Hall & Oates are not the kind of group that shrugs off their past work or distances themselves from commercial winners. They know what fills the venues.

“We have this incredibly good problem of having so many hits,” Oates says. “We love those songs. Believe me, it’s not a chore to play those songs because they are really great. And obviously they speak for themselves because they stood the test of time.”

He says he looks out at the audience at shows and sees more than grown-ups who grooved to his music decades ago. He sees teenagers and pre-teens, thirtysomethings and fortysomethings — people “straight across the board” — who come for the music.

“They’re well-crafted pop songs. They seem to have a connection that is not tied to a period of time. You know, they don’t sound old and nostalgic,” he says. “They seem to evoke the same response in young kids today as they did when they were new back in the ‘70s and ’80s.”

And he jokes there's one of their tunes that perfectly fits today's COVID-19 mood. “We've got a song called ‘Out of Touch’ which I guess is totally appropriate.”

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They’re not making each other’s dreams come true.

Pop rock duo Daryl Hall, 77, and John Oates, 75, are no longer making sweet music together — instead, they’re embroiled in a public feud and legal battle.

It all began when Hall filed a lawsuit against his former musical partner Oates on Nov. 16.

Fans took to social media to express their disbelief over the news, with one writing: “Daryl Hall is suing John Oates. The documents are sealed so we don’t know why yet. But I’m suddenly depressed.”

Hall and Oates, famous for ’70s and ’80s yacht rock hits like “You Make My Dreams (Come True)” and “Rich Girl,” first met while attending Temple University in Philadelphia in 1967.

They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. When they played together at a sold-out show in Madison Square Garden in February 2020, the men spoke to The Post — separately, in a sign of what was to come.

Daryl Hall and John Oates speaking at a podium.

“No. John and I never fight,” Hall told The Post when asked if they ever argued over a song. “We’ve never had a real fight since we’ve known each other — and that’s since we were kids, teenagers. We just know to deal with each other. That’s why we’re still together.”

Oates said: “The fact that Daryl and I are still friends, that he and I still get along — it’s a miracle. But we do.”

Last year, Hall revealed that the pair would no longer make music as a duo together. “I don’t have any plans to work with John. I mean, whatever. Time will tell,” he explained to the Los Angeles Times .

“Life changed, everything changed,” Hall continued. “I’m more interested in pursuing my own world. And so is John.”

So, what happened? Here’s a breakdown.

Daryl Hall and John Oates performing onstage.

Hall filing revealed

On Nov. 16, Hall filed a lawsuit in Nashville, Tennessee , relating to a “contract/debt,” according to court records viewed by The Post .

Since court documents are sealed, not much was known about the lawsuit’s details at the time.

But, based on court records, Hall and his organization, the Daryl Hall Revocable Trust, filed an undisclosed complaint against Oates’ trust, the John W. Oates TISA Trust, and its co-trustees in Davidson County Chancery Court.

The lawsuit also named Oates’ wife, Aimee, who holds a role as trustee of her husband’s investment trust.

Restraining order

The following day, the court officially issued a temporary restraining order , to begin Nov. 30, against Oates. There are no details as to what the injunction prohibits Oates from doing.

John Oates and Daryl Hall posing together in 2014.

What filing could be about

The duo appeared to be having creative differences.

During an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, Hall downplayed their partnership .

“You think John Oates is my partner? … He’s my business partner,” he said in September 2022. “He’s not my creative partner.”

Hall also implied that he did most of the work. He cited the duo’s 1980 No. 1 hit, “Kiss on My List,” as an example of his creative dominance. “I did all those [harmonies],” Hall said. “That’s all me.” (Oates isn’t credited as a songwriter on “Kiss on My List,” but is listed as a co-producer with Hall).

Hall has released five solo albums throughout his career, starting with “Sacred Songs” in 1980. Though he always reunited with Oates to tour and record after completing a solo project, he’s revealed that he doesn’t like being in a duo .

“I don’t like it,” he told the Los Angeles Times . “John and I call our touring company ‘Two-Headed Monster,’ because it is that. It’s very annoying to be a duo, because people always say, ‘Oh, you’re the tall one, you’re the short one. You’re the one that sings, you’re the one that doesn’t sing.’ You’re always compared to the other person. It works with comedy entities, like Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, but with music, it’s f – – ked up, actually.”

In 2021, during an interview with Sky News , Hall warned artists to hold onto their publishing rights, saying “all that you have is that.

“Oh, in the early days, it got sold off for me and I didn’t get the money,” he said.

Daryl Hall, left, and John Oates smiling together.

Cryptic Thanksgiving post

On November 23 — one week after the filing — Oates broke his silence about his battle with Hall. On his social media channels, Oates posted a Thanksgiving message calling for “a more compassionate and supportive world.

“During this time of communal reflection and connection with loved ones, let’s not forget those experiencing challenges globally,” the singer wrote.

He continued, “As we come together, consider reaching out to support those in need — whether through local charities or international humanitarian initiatives. May our collective efforts contribute to a more compassionate and supportive world.”

Official reason why Hall filed

According to TMZ , Hall and Oates’ dispute is over which songs in the duo’s catalogue Oates is allowed to sing as a solo artist.

The hit tunes at issue in the court battle reportedly include “Kiss On My List,” “Rich Girl,” “Maneater,” “You Make My Dreams,” “One on One,” “Out of Touch,” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” and “Private Eyes.”

Oates had a slew of concerts in November — which corresponds to Hall filing on Nov. 16. Hall also had a concert in Tokyo, where he played the duo’s hits solo.

On Nov 26, more details about the filing emerged . Unsealed records show that Chancellor Russell Perkins issued a temporary restraining order against Oates and his trust to halt the sale of his share of Whole Oats Enterprises LLP to Primary Wave Music for 15 days or until an arbitrator makes a ruling.

The suit was first filed after Oates performed solo shows in which he sang songs that Hall was credited for writing.

In the suit, Hall’s lawyers claimed Oates and his team violated a confidentiality provision by sharing their business arrangement in a letter of intent to Primary Wave, which they say should legally negate the sale.

The “entire Unauthorized Transaction is the product of an indisputable breach of contract,” Hall alleged, according to filings.

Hall claims Oates “ambushed” him in new filing — and he responds

On Nov. 29, Hall claimed in new court documents that his former bandmate waited to ambush him with a plan to sell his half of their company, Whole Oats Enterprises, LLP, to Primary Wave.

“This recent bad faith conduct by John Oates and the Oates Trust has created tremendous upheaval, harm, and difficulty in my life,” Hall wrote in the filing, obtained by People . “Not to mention unnecessary expense and burden, during a time when I am in the middle of a tour throughout the U.S. West Coast, Japan, and Manilla and need to focus and perform at top level.”

“I believe that John Oates timed the Unauthorized Transaction to create the most harm to me,” the frontman continued. “Respectfully, he must be stopped from this latest wrongdoing and his malicious conduct reined in once and for all.”

The “You Make My Dreams” singer claimed that Oates selling his share of the duo’s WOE joint venture would violate the terms of an October 2021 deal between the two men.

Hall also called the move by Oates “completely clandestine.”

Oates later filed his own statement in response, saying he was “tremendously disappointed” that Hall had chosen to make “inflammatory, outlandish, and inaccurate statements about me.”

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Daryl Hall says he and John Oates 'don't have anything to say together creatively'

Their last album was released in 2006.

Daryl Hall and John Oates perform during the Daryl Hall & John Oats And Tears For Fears Concert at the Prudential Center, June 17, 2017 in Newark, N.J.

 -- While Daryl Hall and John Oates still tour together -- in fact, they're on tour now -- the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers haven't made a studio album together since 2006.

And it seems there's a very good reason for that.

"Because we don't have anything to say together creatively. How's that?" Hall bluntly told the San Jose Mercury News .

"We exist for what we did together in the past," he added. "But as one grows up, one becomes more individualistic in one's life. When you are 20 years old, you need a buddy. When you're ... 70 years old, you don't need a buddy as bad. So what we do is work separately. And we're very happy about it."

Hall, 70, also explained why their act's official name is Daryl Hall & John Oates, and not "Hall & Oates," as people often refer to them.

"The reason we've always insisted on our full names is because we consider ourselves to be two individual artists. We're not really a classic duo in that respect," he told the newspaper. "We don't really do a lot together other than share a stage."

The singer added, "We always wanted to be looked at as separate people ... It's just one of those things. For the most part, people do relate to us as individual artists as well as for what we do together."

But evidently, Hall's desire for him and Oates, 69, to be seen as "separate people" isn't entirely working.

The Mercury News informed him that when you so a Google search for "Hall & Oates," the first related question that comes up is, "Which one is Oates?"

"That's what came up after all these years? 'Which one is John Oates?'" Hall replied, laughing. "Well, that's the f------ stupidest thing I've ever heard."

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Will Hall & Oates Ever Get Back Together? John Oates Shares His Thoughts

John Oates opened up about the possibility of a Hall and Oates reunion. Here’s what the musician said. Read on to know more!

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A piece of advice to all Hall and Oates fans would be to not get their hopes up. John Oates of the duo recently admitted in an interview that he has “moved on.” The iconic rock and soul duo Daryl Hall and John Oates last performed together in 2022 before embarking on their solo journeys.

Daryl and John went on tour individually after splitting in 2022. Fans of the duo still hoped for a reunion and to see them perform together someday. John Oates from the duo recently spoke out about the possibility of a reunion. Here’s what the musician had to say.

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John emphasized how the duo always presented themselves as “Daryl Hall and John Oates” so they were always “two individuals who work together.” He added, “This is the ultimate expression of that.”

The feud between Daryl Hall and John Oates continues as does their lawsuit. It all started when Hall decided to sue Oates for trying to sell his portion of the business. Hall called Oates’ move “the ultimate partnership betrayal.” Oates responded to the claim by saying Hall’s accusing him is “inflammatory, outlandish, and inaccurate.”

In the interview with Rolling Stone, Oates said that the legal business between him and Hall is “very boring.” He later explained how Hall and he are “going to work it out”

“We have a different strategy for our lives, and we have a different strategy for our business lives as well as our personal lives,” John explained. He added, “We’re old guys. We deserve to be allowed to do whatever we want to do.” The two performed as a duo last in 2022. ALSO READ: What did Daryl Hall say about his relationship with John Oates before the lawsuit and restraining order? Exploring 'it's a miracle' comments amid legal battle

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Daryl Hall and John Oates are the NUMBER-ONE SELLING DUO in music history!

Beginning as two devoted disciples of earlier soul greats, Daryl Hall & John Oates are today soul survivors in their own rights. They have become such musical influences on future generations of popular artists that Spin Magazine’s September 2006 cover headline read: “Why Hall and Oates are the New Velvet Underground.” One of the most sampled artists today, their impact can be heard everywhere from boy band harmonies to neo-soul to rap-rock fusion.

Signed to Atlantic by Ahmet Ertegun in the early 1970s, Daryl Hall & John Oates have sold more records than any other duo in music history. Their 1973 album, Abandoned Luncheonette , produced by Arif Mardin, yielded the Top 10 single, “She’s Gone,” which also went to #1 on the R&B charts when it was covered by Tavares. The duo recorded one more album with Atlantic, War Babies (produced by Todd Rundgren) before they signed to RCA. Their tenure at RCA would catapult Daryl and John to international superstardom.

From the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s, the duo would score six #1 singles, including “Rich Girl,”, “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” (also #1 R&B), “Maneater” and “Out of Touch” from six multi-platinum albums—’76’s Bigger Than Both of Us , ’80’s Voices , ’81’s Private Eyes , ’82’s H2O , ’83’s Rock ’N Soul, Part 1 and ’84’s Big Bam Boom . The era would also produce an additional 8 Top 10 singles: “Sara Smile,” “You Make My Dreams (Come True),” “Did It In a Minute,” “Family Man,” “One on One,” “Say It Isn’t So,” “Adult Education” and “Method of Modern Love.”

By 1984, the R.I.A.A. recognized Daryl Hall and John Oates as the number-one selling duo in music history, a record they still hold today.

In 1985 singer Paul Young covered the Daryl-written Voices album track “Everytime You Go Away,” scoring a #1 hit and helping to establish the song as a modern standard. That same year, Daryl and John participated in the historic “We Are the World” session, reopened the legendary Apollo Theatre in the company of their heroes David Ruffin & Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations, and closed the globally broadcast Live Aid show in Philadelphia.

Across the succeeding decades, Daryl and John have continued to record and tour both individually and together, while their self-composed songs have evolved from current hits to timeless classics. In 2003, Daryl Hall and John Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, followed by their 2014 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Daryl Hall’s latest project is the multi-award-winning monthly web series and TV show, Live from Daryl’s House , which pairs him with friends, contemporaries, influences and devotees for spontaneous performances and a behind the scenes glimpse into artists at work and play. He also opened “Daryl’s House,” a restaurant and music club in Pawling, NY. “Daryl’s House,” which also serves as the backdrop for Live From Daryl’s House , aims to combine top-notch food with amazing live performances.

John Oates released his memoir, Change Of Seasons (St. Martin’s Press) in 2017. Relying on his many handwritten journals, he brings to light many fascinating stories, ranging over his entire life, with a journalist’s eye and a poet’s heart. John is creatively involved in the Nashville music scene, producing and writing for video and film projects as well as contributing to raising awareness for “Feeding America” through online virtual concerts.

Demonstrating the duo’s massive popularity across decades, generations and listening formats, in 2020 Daryl and John celebrated a milestone 1 billion streams of “You Make My Dreams (Come True).” Ubiquitous in films, commercials and playlists, the song encapsulates the essential and enduring appeal of Daryl Hall & John Oates. Their music makes people feel good. Always has, always will.

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5 Hall & Oates Songs Showcasing John Oates’ Singing

by Matt Friedlander April 7, 2024, 3:43 pm

John Oates , one half of the celebrated pop duo Hall & Oates , celebrated his 76th birthday on April 7, 2024. Oates and his longtime collaborator Daryl Hall have been in the news recently because they’re embroiled in a legal battle over Oates’ desire to sell his portion of the duo’s music publishing.

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Meanwhile, the catalog of songs Hall and Oates have created together have yielded many enduring hits, and a variety of other great tunes. While Hall is considered the duo’s main lead singer and has been slightly more prolific as a songwriter, Oates also has made major contributions as a songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist.

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In honor of Oates’ birthday, here’s a look at five noteworthy songs by the duo that his songwriting and singing talents:

“She’s Gone” (1973)

Oates co-wrote the duo’s classic early hit “She’s Gone” with Hall. He also and sings lead on the verses and the low harmony throughout the rest of the song. In addition, Oates contributed the memorable guitar solo heard before Hall belts out the final chorus.

The soulful breakup song first appeared on Hall and Oates’ second album, Abandoned Luncheonette , but only reached No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was initially released as a single om 1973. After the duo scored its first major hit in 1976 with “Sara Smile,” which peaked at No. 4 on the Hot 100, “She’s Gone” was re-released. The tune then ascended to No. 7 on the chart.

[RELATED: John Oates Dishes on Fractured Partnership with Daryl Hall Amid Legal Battle]

“Back Together Again” (1977)

By the times Hall and Oates released their fifth studio album, Bigger Than Both of Us , in 1976, the duo’s star was on the rise. The album featured their first No. 1 hit, “Rich Girl,” as well as a song written and with lead vocals by Oates called “Back Together Again” that also became a hit.

“Back Together Again” was as funky soul tune that sounded like the group was channeling Curtis Mayfield. The single peaked at No. 28 on the Hot 100.

“How Does It Feel to Be Back” (1980)

Oates wrote and delivers lead vocals on “How Does It Feel to Be Back,” a melodic pop-rock gem that kicks off the duo’s 1980 album Voices . Oates also plays the distinctively jangly 12-string electric guitar on the track.

The song was released as a single, and reached No. 30 on the Hot 100.

“Mano a Mano” (1981)

Hall and Oates’ 1981 album Private Eyes was the duo’s most successful studio effort to date, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. The album featured two No. 1 hits, the title track and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do),” the latter of which was co-written by Oates.

Private Eyes also included the song “Mano a Mano,” which Oates composed by himself and was featured on lead vocals. The tune is soulfully grooving rock track, with a catchy Latin-flavored chorus, with a positive message about unity.

“Cold Dark and Yesterday” (1984)

Hall & Oates’ 1984 album Big Bam Boom featured one of the biggest hits of the duo’s career, “Maneater,” another chart-topping single that Oates co-wrote.

The album also included one song solely written by Oates, “Cold Dark and Yesterday.” The catchy, danceable tune offers up a synth-driven New Wave sound that was ever present on MTV at that time.

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Hall and Oates were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. While they last released an album together in 2006, the duo continued to tour until late 2022. Any future Hall & Oates tour currently seems unlikely, as Hall sued Oates in 2023 to block John from selling his portion of Whole Oates enterprises, the company that manages the duo’s music publishing.

Meanwhile, in recent years, Oates has been focusing on his solo career, releasing a variety of albums, EPs, and singles. Among his latest releases is a song called “Get Your Smile On,” which arrived in December 2023. He currently has about 18 solo concerts lined up in 2024, through an August 24 show in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Tickets for Oates’ concerts are available now via various outlets, including StubHub .

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Listen to ‘Long Monday’ From John Oates’ Upcoming Album

John Oates has released the second song from his upcoming album Reunion . “Long Monday,” a cover of a John Prine song from 2005, follows the LP’s title track, which was released earlier this month.

The song first appeared on Prine’s album Fair & Square . “I chose to record ‘Long Monday’ due to the evocative nature and down-to-earth beauty of the song’s story,” Oates said in a press release announcing the song. “I think it’s important to respect a songwriter’s work. Because of that, I wanted to remain faithful to the lyrics and melody while, at the same time, making it my own as far as the arrangement.”

You can hear Oates’ cover of “Long Monday” below.

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Reunion marks Oates’ first solo studio album since 2018’s Arkansas . He’ll support the LP with a U.S. tour; you can see the dates below.

What’s Going On With Hall & Oates?

Oates recently said that he and longtime performing partner Daryl Hall are finished . The duo had a falling out in November 2023 after Hall filed a lawsuit against Oates in an attempt to block Oates from selling his share in their music business. Hall said he was “ blindsided ” by Oates’ actions; Oates noted that he was “ deeply hurt ” by Hall’s accusations.

Two weeks ago Oates said, “As far as I’m concerned, I’ve moved on. I feel like I have a new lease on my creative life.”

John Oates 2024 Tour

April 28 – Corona, CA @ Dos Lagos Amphitheater

May 2-3 – Phoenix, AZ @ Musical Instrument Museum

May 7 – St. Louis, MO @ City Winery

May 8 – Chicago, IL @ City Winery

June 7-8 – Cedaredge, CO @ Grand Mesa Songwriter Festival

June 25 – Cincinnati, OH @ Memorial Hall

June 26 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre + Ballroom

June 27 – Rochester, NY @ Rochester International Jazz Festival

August 15 – Cape May, NJ @ Cape May Convention Hall

August 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Philadelphia Folk Festival

August 22 – Newton, NJ @ The Newtown Theater

August 24 – Beverly, MA @ The Cabot

August 25 – Nantucket, MA @ Dreamland

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Elvis Costello and Daryl Hall will hit the road together this summer, performing across North America.

The trek will begin on June 2 in Troutdale, Oregon and then make its way east with shows scheduled in Toronto, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and more.

You can view a complete list of dates below. Tickets will be available starting March 15.

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Forty years ago, Hall appeared on one of Costello's albums, 1984's Goodbye Cruel World , singing harmony vocals on a song called "The Only Flame in Town." Hall also appeared in the song's music video.

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"Daryl made the rest of us look as if we had just crawled out of a hedge," Costello later wrote in liner notes for the LP. "My humor wasn't helped by the record company representative shrieking at the makeup girl: 'Make him look handsome' as I was about to go under the pancake. Ah! The '80s."

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