Daryl Hall & John Oates
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Review by Leyla Sanai, New Musical Express, September 1982
DARYL HALL and John Oates are potentially a formidable partnership. 'I Can't Go For That' was the slickest snappiest ditty the wrong side of the ...
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Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, 7 September 1993
The blonde half of Hall & Oates on his Soul Alone album; the influence of Philly soul, and Thom Bell in particular; writing songs with John Oates; his Sacred Songs album with Robert Fripp, and on such songs as 'Everytime You Go Away' and 'She's Gone'.
File format: mp3; file size: 61.8mb, interview length: 33' 45" sound quality: ***
Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1990
The dynamic duo talk about how there are no major points of contention between them; their new album Change of Season; their ex-manager Tommy Mottola; leaving NYC, the change of lifestyle, and moving away from urban dance music; their dislike of Beauty On A Back Street; Daryl working with Dave Stewart and Robert Fripp; the bad moves they've made; the homoerotic Daryl Hall & John Oates sleeve, and not getting into modern dance music.
File format: mp3; file size: 63.3mb, interview length: 1h 05' 57" sound quality: ***
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Hall & Oates: The Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York
Live Review by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, 15 June 1985
SOMETHING SPECIAL. A peculiar culture clash, perhaps, but an Event most definitely. Whoever permed the unlikely combination of christening the reopening of Harlem's celebrated Apollo ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: War Babies
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, December 2005
A Philly soul duo's descent into the "vomit of insanity" ...
Daryl Hall and John Oates: Big Bam Boom (RCA)
Review by Craig Zeller, Record, January 1985
IT'S NOT exactly a secret that Hall and Oates have been riding the hot streak of their lives since the '80s began. Voices, Private Eyes ...
The Odd Couple — Hall & Oates: Blue-Eyed Philadelphia Soul
Interview by Kris Nicholson, Circus, 28 September 1976
AT FIRST glance these two characters look like rock's answer to the Odd Couple. Daryl Hall is the cool picture of a detached intellectual, with ...
Hall & Oates: The Fall + Rise of Hohl + Oates
Interview by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, June 1985
How Daryl Hall (né Hohl) and John Oates became the most successful duo in recording history. New York interview by Graham K Smith ...
Hall & Oates: Bigger Than Both Of Us (RCA)
Review by Kris Nicholson, Creem, December 1976
WOULD ROBIN Trower deny the fact that he owes a lot to Jimi Hendrix? Then why should Daryl Hall shrink at the mention of Todd ...
Hall & Oates: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Roughage riders ...
With Hall & Oates: G.E. Smith — "Call me a contemporary commercial pop-rock guitar player."
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, February 1986
"IF THERE'S anything worth writing about me, it's that I'm a guy like most of the people who read Guitar Player," insists G.E. Smith. "I'm ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Abandoned Luncheonette (Atlantic SD 7269)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, June 1974
ATLANTIC RECORDS has the habit of taking original material and placing it in the context of an incredible array of session musicians. When they're working ...
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 12 February 1983
HALL & OATES have taken up permanent residency in the world's Top Tens. The American duo have spent the last decade and more making albums ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Beauty on a Back Street (RCA AFL1-2300)
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 20 October 1977
Hall & Oates put it all together ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates, Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Graham K. Smith, Record Mirror, 24 March 1984
WHATEVER IT is, Daryl Hall appears to possess it in more than average proportions. Damn him! For although the Hall and Oates experience is artfully ...
Bob Clearmountain: Making the hard stuff look easy
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1990
BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN exudes a calm, deliberate air as he moves around the cluttered interior of a recording truck parked outside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre. Politely negotiating ...
Hall & Oates: This One's Daryl & This One's John
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 17 March 1983
And this is Ian Birch reporting from the American headquarters of Hall & Oates, the most successful double act in recording history ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: War Babies (Atlantic)
Review by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1975
IMAGINE THAT! They write songs like Todd Rundgren. They play songs like Todd Rundgren. They even sing like him. And all he did on the ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 30 October 2017
FOR THE PAST decade, Daryl Hall & John Oates have been enjoying a revival. In 2009, the teen film (500) Days of Summer turned a ...
Hall and Oates: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 23 September 1980
The Rock of Gold ...
Hall & Oates: Blue-eyed Soul For The Masses
Interview by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, September 1976
NEW YORK — In this world cluttered with singer-songwriter-performers and other hyphenated musical creations, into this electronic, technologic, upheaving miasma of pure and impure sounds ...
Hall & Oates: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 17 March 1984
SWEET SOUL MUSIC ...
Cruise control: How Yacht Rock sailed back into fashion
Overview by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, The Guardian, 20 April 2016
Smooth, well-produced, meticulously written: Soft Rock had a bad reputation in the DIY '80s and '90s. But today it has renewed relevance. An aficionado explains. ...
Hall & Oates: Big Bam Boom (RCA)
Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, January 1985
Maestros of Yuppie Soul, Hall & Oates keep their sleek street machine in high gear. ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, OOR, October 1990
"PEOPLE SAY, 'When will the next big thing come?' It will only come when the last big thing's influence is wholly exhausted... we will suck ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates, Eric Carmen: University of California, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Record Mirror, 19 November 1977
A Right Pair Of Jokers ...
Nutritious Music: Daryl Hall & John Oates
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 17 February 1973
DARYL HALL, one half of Whole Oats, decided that Philadelphia can lay claim to one of the most innocuous music scenes in the entire country. ...
Interview by 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 ...
Hall & Oates: Back Together Again
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 13 October 1977
Hall & Oates Abandon Philly Soul ID, Adopt Heavy Metal Stance ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, January 1998
The rock'n'soul duo return with their first album for seven years ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Private Eyes (RCA)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1981
I GOTTA HAND it to these guys. Just a few years back, if the merest snatch of any of their biggies – 'She's Gone' was ...
Hall & Oates: Laugh All The Way To The Synth Bank
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1982
"Now no one will be able to accuse us of being fags that sing like the Spinners."Daryl Hall, to Jaan Uhelszki, August 1977. ...
Hall & Oates: Beauty On A Back Street
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 24 September 1977
THE ACCEPTABLE face of disco music? ...
Hall and Oates: A Bigger Splash
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 November 1976
JOHN OATES: 'I find the audiences in Europe more intelligent and receptive – music in Europe and England still retains its mystique and excitement.' ...
Hall & Oates: A Mutant Romance
Interview by Ian Birch, Sounds, 12 June 1976
Daryl Hall & John Oates – boy, if you think Dave Bowie had the Philly Soul enigma variations bag sown up with 'TVC 15' you're ...
Hall and Oates: New Victoria Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 June 1976
IT WAS ONE of those historic, electrifying events that punctuate the cavalcade of rock, one of those nights that fans will long recall..."Do you remember ...
Hall and Oates: The Palladium, NYC
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 18 December 1976
NEW YORK: Like it or not, Hall and Oates are currently running the distinct risk of becoming just too perfect for their own good. At ...
Daryl Hall and John Oates: No Goodbyes (Atlantic) **
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 19 March 1977
ATLANTIC RECORDS attempt to cash in on the current Hall and Oates boom with a compilation of some of the best tracks from the Philadelphian ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 23 November 1974
DARYL HALL and John Oates are acquiring something of a cult following in this country. ...
Hall & Oates: Outre in Dayton, Ohio
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 19 November 1977
I'M SICK! I'm twisted! I'm bent! I'm writing a story about Daryl Hall & John Oates!There's one good thing about devoting your energy to writing ...
Hall & Oates: White Hopes On Funk
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 May 1976
Hall & Oates: Fairfield Hall, Croydon ...
Interview by Deborah Frost, Creem, January 1987
...Sez Ex Philly Teen Oddball ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 27 March 1975
AFTER RECORDING Abandoned Luncheonette, an often ingenious merger of white acoustic pop and Philly soul, Philadelphians Hall & Oates disavowed that style, switched producers (from ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Creem, April 1985
"NOW REMEMBER," the harried veteran publicist briefs me as I perch on the jump seat of the chauffeur-driven limousine cruising groovily over the 59th Street ...
Hall & Oates: Confessions Of An Odd Couple
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1977
THE PHONE RANG and an unfamiliar voice said: "Is this Jaan Uhelszki?" Assuming that the caller was a bill collector or someone of like obnoxiousness, ...
Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 23 March 1995
Daryl Hall is the sweet soul voice in the Hall & Oates duo, whose "black-white" music has made them America's hit single champs of the ...
Hall & Oates: Daryl Hall and John Oates
Review by Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 23 October 1975
After three albums Daryl Hall and John Oates finally have a clear-cut style. This is Hall & Oates's Wild Honey: lean, basic and more concerned ...
Hall & Oates: Bedroom Politics — the Acceptable Sound of Young America
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 13 November 1982
THEY DON'T get up when I come in, but then despite their slight physical stature Daryl Hall and John Oates are big men now. After ...
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