Best-selling duo Daryl Hall & John Oates will bring four decades of chart-topping favorites to Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on December 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 21 at noon.
Starting out as two devoted disciples of earlier soul greats, Daryl Hall and John Oates are soul survivors in their own right. They have become such musical influences on some of today’s popular artists that the September 2006 cover of Spin magazine’s headline read: “Why Daryl Hall & John Oates are the New Velvet Underground.” Their artistic fan base includes Rob Thomas, John Mayer, Brandon Flowers of the Killers, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and MTV’s newest hipsters Gym Class Heroes who dubbed their tour “Daryl Hall for President Tour 2007.” One of the most sampled artists today, their impact can be heard everywhere from boy band harmonies, to neo-soul to rap-rock fusion.
With over 60 million albums sold and Daryl Hall & John Oates have seven RIAA platinum albums, along with six RIAA gold albums. Their rich repertoire has garnered a total of eight #1 hit singles along with dozens of hits throughout the 70s, 80 and 90s.
Daryl Hall and John Oates’ 1973 debut album, Abandoned Luncheonette, launched their success with the Top 10 single, “She’s Gone,” which also went to #1 on the R&B charts when it was covered by Tavares.
From the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s, the duo would score six #1 singles, including “Rich Girl” (also #1 R&B), “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) (also #1 R&B), “Maneater” and “Out of Touch” from their six consecutive multi-platinum albums—’76’s Bigger Than Both of Us, ’80’s Voices, ’81’s Private Eyes, ‘82’s H2O, ‘83’s Rock N Soul, Part I and ‘84’s Big Bam Boom. The era would also produce an additional 5 Top 10 singles, “Sara Smile,” “One on One,” “You Make My Dreams,” “Say It Isn’t So” and “Method of Modern Love.”
Daryl Hall also wrote the single “Everytime You Go Away,” which singer Paul Young covered and scored a number-one hit with in 1985. That same year, Daryl Hall & John Oates, participated in the historic “We Are the World” session as well as closing the Live Aid show in Philadelphia.
By 1987, the RIAA had recognized Daryl Hall and John Oates as the #1 selling duo in music history, a record they still hold today.
In 2008, the duo was honored with the Icon Award during BMI’s 56th Annual Pop Awards. That same year, John Oates released his critically acclaimed solo album, 1000 Miles of Life, dedicated to three major influences in his career—producer Arif Mardin (who produced Daryl Hall & John Oates first two albums on Atlantic Records), Jerry Lynn Williams (a writer who contributed songs to Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt and B.B. King, among others) and his original guitar mentor Jerry Ricks, who introduced him to the roots blues/folk scene in Philadelphia in the late ‘60s.
Daryl Hall’s latest project is an award-winning monthly web series, Live from Daryl’s House (www.livefromdarylshouse.com). Past episodes of Live From Daryl’s House have featured a mix of well-known performers including Train’s Pat Monahan, Jose Feliciano, Smokey Robinson, The Doors’ Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, Nick Lowe, Todd Rundgren and Patrick Stump along with newcomers such Eric Hutchinson, Cash Money rocker Kevin Rudolf, Matt Nathanson, Plain White T’s, Eli “Paperboy” Reed soul diva Sharon Jones and hot new alternative band Neon Trees.
Most recently, Daryl Hall & John Oates released their first box set, Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates. The platinum recording artists were also recently honored with a Music Icon Award at the TV Land awards ceremony earlier this year.
The 40th anniversary of their first meeting finds Daryl Hall and John Oates very much at the height of their powers making their own kind of soul and influencing a new generation of musicians.
Tickets cost $79, $64 & $49* all seats are reserved and available at all Ticketmaster outlets online at www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000. Doors open one-hour prior to show start time. *Additional fees may apply