Daryl Hall got a restraining order against John Oates
Hall & Oates are now in a legal dispute after Daryl Hall filed a lawsuit against his longtime collaborator John Oates
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After a year of high-profile celebrity divorces, maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are deep-seated issues between Hall & Oates. The musical duo have gone their separate ways over the years, but they generally came back together, reuniting for a performance as recently as October 2022. Yet something has gone seriously awry, as Daryl Hall is now taking legal action against his longtime collaborator, John Oates.
No one really knows what this lawsuit is about, except that it’s classified as a “Contract/Debt” dispute on the website for the Nashville Chancery Court (where the suit was filed). But while business issues between old partners are somewhat commonplace in the industry, the more eyebrow-raising aspect of the situation is that Hall additionally filed a motion for a temporary restraining order against Oates. Per Rolling Stone, “a restraining bond was set at $50,000, and the restraining order itself was issued” on November 17, the day after the suit was filed. The outlet reports that summonses have been issued for Oates, his wife Amiee, and Richard Flynn, listed as a co-trustee of the John W. Oates TISA Trust along with Amiee.
Beyond that, Hall filed a motion to keep all the legal documents under seal, so the rest of the details are unknown. However, some resurfaced interviews over the last couple years point to tension between the pair, who met while attending Temple University in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. In October 2022, Oates suggested that the pair were done playing together (or at least finished touring) in an interview with The Big Takeover. “I think we both have grown apart professionally and personally. I think we both want to do something else. I don’t want to sound like doom and gloom, but there’s a reality to being old, to being our age. I think Daryl and I feel the exact same way. As our life is winding down, we want to make up for lost time and do the things that we didn’t get a chance to do while we were working together.”
Hall’s comments that same year were less generous. “It’s very annoying to be a duo,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “Everything you do is juxtaposed against another person. Try doing that sometime. I don’t want to use the word ‘emasculating,’ because that’s male, but it takes away your individuality.”
Hall described Oates as “my business partner… not my creative partner” during an appearance on Bill Maher’s podcast, saying, “John and I are brothers, but we are not creative brothers. We are business partners. We made records called Hall & Oates together, but we’ve always been very separate, and that’s a really important thing for me.” Seems the business is about to get even more now.
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Skip the courts and duke it out in guitar-swinging geezer combat.
Does the restraining order state that here he comes, we should watch out boys, as he’ll chew you up, because he’s a maneater?
Dude, leave him alone. He’s a family man.
The schism can be traced to the discovery that one of them CAN, in fact, go for that.
I tried to come up with a better joke than that, but no can do.
Don’t even think about it
You did just fine.Smile.
Sounds like you’re out of touch.
Given that it’s a restraining order, I assume both sides will have private eyes watching them, and seeing their every move.
They don’t want to see each other one on one. But that happens when you go solo.Say it isn’t so, guys!
I bet one of them has a skull full of maggots.Oh sorry. I thought this article was about Cannibal Corpse…
It’s a bitch, girl
It’s a bitch, girl.
It’s gone too far.
I’m seeing double here! Four “It’s a bitch, girl”s!
FOUR BITCH, ONE CUP
Who is between them that really out of touch, out of time, in this beef.
It’s so easy to hurt others when you can’t feel pain.
Even Hall and Oates are warring in Biden’s America. SMDH.Damn liberals!
Has Melissa Barrera taken a side on this yet?
Curious. On social media, they both come off rather affable (tho Hall a dash more ego in his presentation). Must be some serious issues between them to bring this on (looks to see if the ghost of Allen Klein is about).
“Area Man Sees Onion Headline in Real Newspaper”
What Oates got, Hall don’t want, and it might be hard for us to handle. This whole thing sounds like a scandal. And it’s a scandal that gives me pain. Yeah, yeah, what I’ve got is a full stock of thoughts and dreams that are being shattered. I wish these guys could get back together. And, uh, how? I can’t explain. Yeah, yeah, well Hall… he just felt the need to sue. Sue sue, sue sue, suuuue. Sue sue, suuuuue.
I heard the members of the Police did the same. They’re always saying “Don’t stand so close to me.”
On that note, Stew Copeland, on top of being one of the greatest rock drummers to ever pick up the sticks, is a national treasure.
I know of Stewart Copeland and less of drumming and I watched the whole thing. That was amazing. He’s amazing!
I loved him on The Good Place.(In all seriousness, I’m trying to learn the drums as an adult, and Copeland, in addition to his effortless charm, is one of the most exceptionally talented drummers I’ve ever heard. It would be an honor to meet him or even watch him live…)
The Rolling Stones are notoriously territorial over their “clouds”.
And lo, the final seal is broken!
BREAKING: Me First takes it restraining order against the Gimme Gimmes.
Look, I can’t swear that NONE of the Nostradamus prophecies are about the Hall/Oates breakup.
As our life is winding down, we want to make up for lost time and do the
things that we didn’t get a chance to do while we were working
together.It’s time for him to sew his Oates, as it were.
He’s separating the wheat from the chaff now? After almost 60 years?
🎶R-E-S-T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G, it’s a restraining order against John Oates.🎶
That’s the right amount of letters! That’s awesome.
🎶Whoooa, here he comes/But not within/500 feet🎶
Say it isn’t so
Last time I asked you I really got a lame excuse
Daryl clearly out here wanting to play that game tonight.
Haulin’ Oates.
THEY’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING!!!!
I found this article about protecting one’s home from tiny trickster spirits. I hope this can help Mr Hall feel safe https://otherworldlyoracle.com/fairy-protection-evil-fairies/
I can’t think of a clever way to bring it up, but I want to say that I really like their song “Adult Education”. It’s got such a weird vibe, and mid-30s Hall & Oates singing about high school drama just makes it weirder, but it’s still a solid catchy song.
The video has an even weirder vibe
WTF?And it’s so long. Why is it so long?
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
My same reaction. I remember the song coming out, but how I have never seen this video – that was bizarre even by 80s video standards. So. Many. Questions. Main one is how did Darryl and John look at the script for this and say -”yep – we are game.” Oates come across as soooo creepy!ETA: I read the Wikipedia article on it and came across this gem – “Oates also derided many of their old videos, describing this clip as “Survivor on acid.”
Maybe it’s about resurrecting his ‘Daryl’s House’ show. Is Oates is getting paid royalties for the songs being performed on the show? Just spit ballin’
Darryl Hall maybe done with John Oates, but I have a feeling that Hall is about to find out that everytime he goes away, he’ll take a piece of Oates with him.
“I SHIT BIGGER PIECES OF OATES THAN THAT!!!!”
Getting a restraining order and then filing under seal is really a petty little-person move, which comports with Hall’s statements on Maher (and the fact that he appeared with Bill Maher), Oates is probably not the one to blame. Hall needs to Take It Easy, even though they’ve been Reelin’ in the Years if Hall thinks he can just Take The Money And Run that is What a Fool Believes.They wrote some of those songs, right? I don’t really like their music.
The local radio station that started playing Christmas music after Halloween fucking loves their version of Jingle Bell Rock.
bizarre. two boomer musicians and a super weird nitpicking over songwriting credits after all this time. Stop it!
They may work together, but they’re not a family, man.
Hall reportedly added, “she’s a bit*h, girl”
I always thought their band name sounded like a farm chore.*Please ungray me