


Six of these peaked at number one: " Rich Girl" (1977), " Kiss on My List" (1980), the two 1981 releases " Private Eyes", and " I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (also a Hot Soul No. The duo reached the US Top 40 with 29 of their 33 singles charting on Billboard's Hot 100 between 19. They have been credited on albums as Daryl Hall & John Oates (or Daryl Hall John Oates) on all of their US releases. Though they are commonly referred to as Hall & Oates, Hall has been adamant about the duo being called Daryl Hall & John Oates – its official name. They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the late-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll, soul music and rhythm and blues. The two write most of the songs they perform, separately or in collaboration. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records, making them one of the biggest selling music duos in history and they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2016.Daryl Hall and John Oates (commonly known as Hall & Oates) are an American pop rock duo formed in Philadelphia in 1970. Hall and Oates’ UK chart breakthrough came in 1982 with the top ten success of I Can’t Go For That, reaching Number 8. Hall and Oates scored several Number 1 songs on the Billboard list with the likes of Rich Girl, Maneater, Private Eyes and Kiss On My List. Hall and Oates released a succession of underselling albums throughout the 1970s, although various songs such as She’s Gone and would soon start getting airplay covered by other artists, leading to interest in them as songwriters.

Hall and Oates first met in 1967 when they were each lead singers of groups on the Philadelphia scene during a particularly eventful Battle of the Bands contest where a pair of rival gangs started shooting at each other, and Daryl and John met both hiding in the same lift, and moved in together when they realised they were at the same university and into similar music.

Hall and Oates, or if you will, Daryl Hall and John Oates, are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia, who are, well, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Daryl Hall (born Pottstown, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1946) and guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer John Oates (born New York City, April 7, 1948).
