Photograph: Paul Natkin/Wire ImageDaryl Hall files suit and restraining order against bandmate John Oates
Pop-Rock- duet Hall & Oates is involved in a confidential lawsuit, and court documents detailing the case have been sealed.
Pop rock duo Hall & Oates is involved in a confidential lawsuit, the details of which are sealed.
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Daryl Hall, 77, the band's co-founder, is suing his former bandmate John Oates, 75, according to Axios Nashville reporter Nate Rau, who first reported the lawsuit. Hall's lawsuit is against Oates as a person and against Oates's credibility.
The couple is known for many chart-topping hits, including Kiss on My List, Private Eyes and Maneater.< /p>< p class="dcr-1kas69x">The lawsuit was filed in Nashville Chancery Court on Thursday, according to court records. The case is classified as a contract/debt dispute, but court documents detailing the case are sealed, Philadelphia magazine reports.
In addition to the lawsuit, Hall also filed a restraining order against Oates , Variety reports. The court issued a temporary restraining order effective November 30.
The lawsuit comes amid public tension between Hall and Oates, Philadelphia magazine reports. Hall said Oates was not his “creative partner” during a 2022 interview on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast.
“He’s my business partner. He's not my creative partner,” Hall told Maher.
“John and I are brothers, but we're not creative brothers. We are business partners. We made records called Hall & Oates is together, but we've always been very separate, and that's very important to me,” Hall added.
Representatives for Hall or Oates could not be reached by telephone. Guardian for comments.
The group has been performing as a duo since 1972, releasing their debut album Whole Oats. The duo toured together as recently as October 2022, but have toured and recorded separately over the years.
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The couple never officially broke up.
In a 2021 interview with the Guardian, the pair spoke about their influence on commercial radio and how to achieve greater acceptance of “crossover music” amid a disparaging movement against the disco music style.
“One of the things I don't think we fully deserve is opening up commercial radio to that possibility,” Oates told the Guardian.
“We have achieved early success with black radio – the African American community played as much, if not as much, a part of our success as anything else. So for us it was normal, it was the music that we made that appealed to all sorts of people. I think we've opened the door for more acceptance of what they call crossover music,” he added.
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