John Oates: Hall & Oates music will ‘trump almost anything Daryl does on his own’
nypost.comThe Hall & Oates musician — who is entangled in a legal dispute with former music partner Daryl Hall — has “moved on” from the band.“I don’t like to live in the past,” Oates said during a recent podcast appearance on David Yontef’s Behind the Velvet Rope. “I make the analogy of what it’s like when you go to a great museum and you’re really excited to go and see all the beautiful paintings or the exhibits or whatever it might be, and then near the end, your feet start to hurt and you say, ‘You know what?
I can’t wait to get out of here.’ That’s kind of how I feel about it.”Oates, 75, and Hall, 77, met as undergrads at Temple University in Philadelphia.
They released their debut album, “Whole Oats,” in 1972, and are best known for hits such as “Maneater” and “Rich Girl.” They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.Despite their success, Oates described their early years as “very intense” due to their busy schedules.“There was no time for reflection.
It was a lot of business demands, a lot of heavy demands… Daryl and I were at the top of the pop world. We had number-one record after number-one record.
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