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May 24, 2002

John Oates Steps Out

Hall and Oates guitarist releases first solo album
October 11, 2000

This Day in Rock

Daryl Hall
April 26, 1997

Hall & Oates Are Back!

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Private Eyes

Not that I expect you to feel sorry for them, but Daryl Hall and John Oates are victims of the pretty-boy syndrome. Gratuitous prettiness arouses primal jealousies and unflattering suspicions about intelligence, moral fiber and how some people gain undeserved breaks because of high cheekbones.

2004 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Hall & Oates, the most commercially successful boy-boy duo of the rock & roll era, began in Philadelphia as a pair of soulful folkies, or perhaps folkful soulies. Daryl Hall was the tall, blond lead vocalist, John Oates the mustachioed Gabe Kaplan look-alike, and together they pursued the mellow R&B sound of the Stylistics or the Chi-Lites, although they were initially lumped together with '70s so...

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