Magic: Hall & Oates' Wizardry
Don Snowden, Crawdaddy!, October 1977
LOS ANGELES "I think I would have been either Gary Gilmore or a musician," Daryl Hall maintains in deadly earnest, nonchalantly flicking an ash from the inevitable Havana. "In my life I had the capability of either being a mass murderer or an artist. I think it's that way with any intense person."
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