Hall & Oates Caricature

Hall & Oates Caricature, illustrated here on May 20, 1980 in NYC with Daryl Hall (back) age 34 and John Oates (front), age 32.

Hall & Oates are an American pop rock duo formed in 1970 in Philadelphia.
They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues.

In 1967, while both were attending Philadelphia’s Temple University, they started spending time together on a regular basis and eventually shared a number of apartments in the city. One of the apartments they shared had “Hall & Oates” on the mailbox, which became the duo’s common nickname.
It would take them another two years to form a musical duo, and three years after that, they signed to Atlantic Records and released their debut album.

On all of their US releases, the duo reached the US Top 40 with 29 of their 33 singles charting on Billboard’s Hot 100 between 1974 and 1991.
Six of these peaked at number one: “Rich Girl” (1977), the three 1981 releases “Kiss on My List” “Private Eyes” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)”, “Maneater” (1982) and “Out of Touch” (1984).
Their overall 16 US Top Tens also include “She’s Gone”, “Sara Smile”, “You Make My Dreams”, “Family Man”, “Say It Isn’t So”, “When The Morning Comes” and “Method of Modern Love”.

Hall started his monthly web series Live From Daryl’s House in 2007 (84 episodes to date) after having the idea of “playing with my friends and putting it up on the Internet”.
Guest artists have included Nick Lowe, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, Smokey Robinson, Todd Rundgren, Train, Grace Potter, Joe Walsh, Billy Gibbons, Kenny Loggins and Cheap Trick to name a few.

In April 2014 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Daryl Hall suffers from Lyme’s Disease, which he contracted in 2005.

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