Will multiplatinum-selling duo Daryl Hall & John Oates split amid bitter legal feud?
Daryl Hall & John Oates threatens to bring over five decades of musical collaboration to a halt.
Filings in a Nashville court and a hearing last week reveal that the «You Make My Dreams» hitmaker are involved in a fight over sale of their joint business venture in which Hall, 77, has accused Oates, 75, of committing the “ultimate partnership betrayal”.
“Your average fans feel like it’s a divorce — they’re upset and sad,” Lori Allred, who founded the first Hall & Oates fan club in the US officially recognized by the multiplatinum-selling duo, said. “You’re seeing these two people, and you grow up with their music, following them and going to shows, and now it’s like, wow.
We love both of them. We don’t want to take a side.”
The news of «Maneater» hitmakers has taken fans by surprise.
“Drop it Daryl,” a fan wrote in a Hall & Oates Facebook group.
However, Allred, who developed a personal acquaintance with the men and subsequently contributed to their website's marketing and merchandising efforts from 1996 to 2010, experienced them as nothing less than «nice» and «good» individuals towards both herself and others.
“They both seem hurt by the other one, they seem hurt,” he said.
“And it bothers me. I just wish them the best.
I hope they can settle it and be happy.”
In 1970, Daryl Hall and John Oates joined musical forces in Philadelphia, with Hall taking on the role of lead vocalist and Oates primarily handling the guitar.
Officially known as Daryl Hall and John Oates, the media condensed their name to Hall & Oates as they achieved success with hits on both pop and R&B charts, collaborating on a total of 18 studio albums. During the 1980s, their music videos, featuring Hall as the towering blond lead singer and Oates
