Daryl Hall and John Oates’ musical partnership resulted in a few of pop’s most enduring tunes – but it surely appears the possibilities of them ever teaming up once more is someplace between zero and nil.
The pair have hits to their identify together with Maneater, I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) and Out of Touch, however their partnership hit an deadlock in 2023 when Oates set about promoting his stake of their publishing firm, and Hall filed a lawsuit to stop him, calling Oates’ transfer “the ultimate partnership betrayal.”
Now, in an interview with The Times of London, Hall was requested in regards to the prospect of reuniting with Oates, or had that ship sailed? He replied:
That ship has gone to the underside of the ocean,” Hall says. “I’ve had a lot of surprises in my life, disappointments, betrayals, so I’m kind of used to it.” And he added: “I’ve been involved with some pretty shady characters over the years. That’s where the problems start.”
The pair met as college students and broke via as a performing due within the early Nineteen Seventies. They went on to promote 60 million data and earn 16 US Top Ten singles at their peak. Of their respective contributions to the challenge, Hall reported: “The songs with his lead vocal are the songs he wrote, and all the other ones, which is about 90 per cent, are the ones I wrote.”
Hall mirrored in The Times interview that he had by no means succumbed to drug temptations on the highway on the peak of their success – “they never agreed with me” – however for every part else? “Just watch Spinal Tap.”