Daryl Hall & John Oates are working on their first collection of new songs since 2003's 'Do It For Love’
Groups led by two people have been notoriously unstable in rock history. The list is endless, but everyone from the Everly Brothers to Simon & Garfunkel, the Kinks, Oasis and the Black Crowes have struggled to stay together. Somehow or another, Hall & Oates have avoided the dark fates of those acts.
That said, the anniversary does bring their minds back to the very beginning of their partnership. They met as students at Temple University in 1967 and became close friends and roommates, but didn’t actually combine their talents until 1970. “We took note that night that the people in the audience weren’t just our age,” Oates says. “There were people in their early twenties, but also people in their forties and fifties. That is really still true today. We appeal too a wide variety of people. People come to our gigs now that are young enough to be our grandchildren.”
Those hits, however, mean that the group can headline arenas and amphitheaters year after year and rarely face empty seats. The only problem is that they have too many hits to cram into one show. “We like to rotate them,” Oates says. “Last year we threw in ‘Is It a Star’ from thealbum. We probably hadn’t played that since 1975. The Eighties hits are so ubiquitous that we like to throw in some Seventies deep cuts to give a more balanced view of our career.
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