Daryl Hall on How He Met John Oates | The Big Interview 

"The Music Business is closer to Organized Crime". No truer words have ever been spoken. Love Daryl & John!

Daryl Hall is truly talented, produced great music, and it is amazing that he 76 years old and look so much younger. Good for him.

Wow. When he said the music business was more like organized crime, because it was exploitation and thievery, truer words have never been spoken.

One of the greatest duos ever, love them.

When I was about 13 in the early 90’s, my mum and I were driving in Melbourne, Australia, in traffic. I looked into the car next to us which was a tarago or some sort of mini bus and staring back at me was John Oates. I flipped out when I saw him and so did my mum. John was laughing at us. I’ll never forget that smile.

These Dan Rather interviews of musicians are so in-depth, intimate yet relaxed. Well done!

Class act. Love Daryl's House. You can tell he loves making music with fellow musicians.

My late hubby was a bassist in a band in Philly (also a Temple U student) with John Oates. In fact, John left their band to team up with Daryl permanently. He said no one liked Daryl due to his arrogance! But they never blamed John for the move because Daryl was so freakin' talented.

Daryl Hall called it. Music business is organised crime. Respect for saying it as it really is.

Thank you John and Daryl for the great music. Appreciate you guys.

Quit college 6 weeks before graduation.....wow "Exploitation and Thievery" Prince said a similar statement One of the most magnificent singer/songwriting duos of R&B ever

I was into hard rock back then but no one could deny they wrote great, catchy tunes. And they were always on the charts with a hit it seemed.

One of the greatest singers and groups of all time! They don't get enough respect. Classic!

Laying down the truth at the end. Tons of respect for not throwing people under the bus and taking responsibility, even in those terrible situations.

Hall & Oates I’ll never get to meet them or see them in concert, but I thank them both for great music that was kind of the sound track of our lives!❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️ you hear their music and you instantly slide back in time!

Saw Hall AND Oates at a small venue in West Germany, they were amazing 👏 ❤!!!

The notion that The Beatles' last album was released without their consent or control says all you need to know about how little power even the biggest bands had.

For years, I thought Hall and Oates was a band called, Haulin’ Oats. I wondered why they needed all them oats.

I love Hall and Oates, I listen to their music everyday and see their videos. I raised my son to love them too! Thank you both for your wonderful music and giving us so much joy for such a long time. Timeless. Ann

Great description of the music business.

One of the most brilliant musicians America has ever produced

My first album as a kid was Private Eyes on a K-Mart cassette copy my brother made for me. Always loved listening to them. All I had was a small tape recorder and graduated to a small boombox and used to record Hall & Oats songs thru the years off the radio as they came out in the eighties. That was a achievement then to make a mix tape off the radio, simpler times and miss small things like that and picking up skip on AM radio. Great music to grow up to then, pure and simple without auto tune.

Can we talk about how great an interviewer Dan is? He makes the guest feel so relaxed, and then asks them a tough question, and gets the info out of them. Too good!

Real class. You could tell he was biting his tongue. He knows exactly who took their money. Great guy, great musician.

Imagine how far Daryl could’ve gone…. If he just got that degree….💁

Two incredible musicians

Lovely music, lovely man. Educated, polite, intelligent, humble. None of that vulgar hyperbole.

Whatever you say, Daryl Hall is, in my opinion, one of the most complete singers of all time and without a doubt beautiful💕❤️💝🇧🇷

man, can you imagine those early 75-person shows with them on just a wurlizter, a mandolin and a guitar? I bet they were fire.

A legendary musical partnership

this guy is one talented dude..

Love Daryl. Talking about the music business without exposing too much. Him and John are icons

These guys were and are a hit making machine.

Philly Proud !!!! These guys influenced Rock, rap , and hip hop… when you have an impact across categories that’s Elvis / Beatles level …

Sad he’s suing John.

My first concert was a Hall and Oates concert at a 5000 seat arena in Glens Falls, NY in 1980 when I was in 7th grade. I took a good friend of my girlfriend without telling her, and when my GF found out she dumped me immediately the next day. Still a great show and lifetime memory for me. Thanks to you both for all the great tunes!

They'll meet again at a plastic surgeon's office or hair transplant clinic.

Hall and Oates were Brilliant Top class 👍🇬🇧

I really like the honesty in what he said! He really didn’t want to talk about it but got his point across anyways! Class act

Things happen, those guys shouldn't go there own way, don't be out of touch

Love his honesty.

I hope they mend their differences. Restraining orders? Wild...

One of my all time favorite singers. Glad to see he is looking healthy.

Fabulous music , gave us unforgettable memories. ❤❤❤

Alot I like about this video.. 1st and foremost how candid the responses are to the questions which were very poignant.. 2nd you see the journey of a musician we all know and love.. grinding away doing what he loves while wrestling with corporate music bullshit. Good stuff. Love axs

Probably blew through that money faster than it was coming in...and yes at this point you should have royalty checks coming in..

Give me Daryl and Tom Petty, and I'm good for about three decades. 👍

Much love to Daryl Hall & John Oates for their music. I hope they are getting paid by Spotify and other online music outlets where people can listen to their music. It bothers me that some of my favorite artists have to continue traveling and performing to earn a living after they get older. It's ok if they want to do that, but it's tough if they would like to stop traveling but have no choice.

Saw them in 1980 at my high school we won a Wrigleys Gum contest to get a free concert at the school. We got to be roadies and help set up. Was fun.

I have always considered Hall the lead man and the major talent. I’m pretty confident I am not alone.

...I worked in Music Publishing, and Daryl couldn't BE more spot on, about his views of the Music "Business" (5:17); I handled the (paperwork) licensing for the usage of "Maneater" on the "Runaway Bride" Soundtrack...which, Daryl didn't even know they were USING! ...He was so incensed, that he fired his OWN publishing firm!! ...this 'lil Mafioso, DON'T play......

I love Daryl's communication style, brains, and of course, amazing talent.

Well he started snorting and started itching his nose when trying to remember what happened to the money 😂

I remember Live from Daryl's House; it only ran for Two Seasons on MTV 📺 🎶

He has every right to blame the label, and so do thousands of othe musicians, and it still goes on today. The only difference between organized crime and the music business is you know the deal going into organized crime. Lastly, I had a promo copy of that original LP. Loved it.

Fascinating to hear Daryl Hall in this interview! I hope he finds it in his heart to bring back Live from Daryl's House and put up all the older episodes 💖 As it turns out, I just saw John Oates here in Austin at a fundraising performance at a very small venue (Z Tejas Avery Ranch) and he brought the house down!!!!!! 👏👏👏

Daryl Hall thanks for keeping it real about the music "cult" business

Their music is beyond words, their vocals are certainly harmonically amazing. I love love LOVE them!!! Need I say more? Thank you Hall & Oates for doing what you do….

Their first album is amazing, it's funny how they're both sort of dismissive of it. If you've never done yourself the favor of listening to it, run don't walk to your closest streaming service!

Appreciate his honesty and amazing voice. TY H&O

Cut to the present day where Hall Is now suing Oates. Makes me sad.

Always great 👍 to learn more about this great composer/musician/singer/entertainer. Always puts on an A Class show and his music 🎶 is timeless. 😎 💘

The artist never really gets all the money. I heard other artists say ," They didn't get all the money before". Some one spent all the money and had their hands in the cookie jar.

Dan being such a great listener makes him the wonderful interviewer that he is! Darryl rocks!

He did not want to say anyting bad about tommy mottola is my guess.

Its interesting to listen to some of these old school celebs talk about how they got ripped off by their record labels, lawyers, and accountants. We always see celebs as powerful, successful, and invulnerable. They look good and seem so happy, and we presume them to be incredibly wealthy and blissful...the ones who made it big in the industry when the industry was good. Only, we now know that the industry was never good. I have watched so many of these videos with some of the biggest names in the industry saying the same thing---they made ridiculous amounts of money for the record labels yet at times found themselves broke (or close to being broke). I watched Diana Ross talk about this...that people think its all lights, glamor, and big smiles (she too had lost a LOT of money at one time because of being ripped off), and that many of the artists she came up with started out young and didn't understand the business part of showbusiness when they first got into it.

Abandoned Luncheonette is one of my fav albums

I saw them in concert in the early 80s. They sounded great!!

Great interview. I feel like I could talk to him all day.

I ❤ Daryl Hall. I love Hall and Oates. Daryl Hall is a talented, beautiful soul!!

“The most successful pop duo of all time/in Rock n Roll history.” I read that somewhere. One of my favorite artists. My favorite songs are Family Man, Private Eyes, Method of Modern Love, Say it Isn’t So, and Out of Touch!! I’m a big fan!! ❤❤❤❤🎼🎤

Kiss on my list is one of the songs of my early working life at 18 years ❤

I am just so sad as a 40 years' old fan of them... so sad...

Does he still do blow? A lot of nose rubbing. 🤔 Hall & Oates are American treasures.

After the split, never heard from either one of them. Ego will always override the music. What ever God creates, only time for US to destroy it. Still a shame.

I'm a 70 year old man who grew up 55 miles from Philly. In 1975 I was crusing in my jet black dodge challener special edition listening to Hall & Oates. I was 21 and my buddie and I knew these Philly guys who were college students at East Stroudsburg University. They turned us on to Abandoned Luncheonette. It seemed like it was the back ground music to my life in 1975. Great memories.

Seen them live about twenty years ago they are amazing Ns actually sound great live

Dudes got soul!

he has fantastic hair

i don't trust those who cover their eyes when they do interviews.

This is a travesty. Can't be no "Hall" without "Oates." That's like the sun without the moon. Hopefully, they can resolve this with a sit-down.

Daryl is a great musician, and I was never much of a fan. I think their big hits are what turned me off. Songs like “Rich Girl” and “She’s Gone” are so much better than “Maneater” or any of those other forgettable songs that made them popular during the Eighties.

Darryl is from my town of Pottstown, Pa but his last name was different and he has his show name he uses . He walked by me at a place called zerns in Gilbertsville some years ago and i didn't pay attention till my brother said who it was . One of the famous from Pottstown and also Taylor Swift

Darry Hall is one of my favorite singers!

Amazing singer, but he has been increasingly dismissive of John Oates in recent years. It diminishes all the good work they did, and it doesn't speak well of him.

This man is 76 years old

This guyvlook so great to be 75 !! Its so hard to believe he is so youthful He today sounds greatsinging and playing .Dan rather looks great too ! Glad he did this interview

But how did Garfunkel get involved with Oates? 😂

Looking damn good for his age, wow! 😄😄🙃🙃🫠😉😉😍😍

He is full of shit. Remember Daryl's House? Most if not all said, where's John?

Bums me out they are having a legal battle against each other. If Hall and Oates can't get along, none of us can lol

Daryll halls vocal range is amazing but he is a true genius as he could write some incredible music

It's a shame how record companies take advantage of recording artists. Now a days you can bypass record companies and put out your own EPV. When you put out your own music, you control all of the rights to your music. Prince wrote all of these amazing songs but Warner Brothers owned the rights to everything. So Prince had to leave Warner Brothers and re-release of his music under a different label so he could control it. You hear horror stories about artists who had a lot of hit records being broke, because the record companies took advantage of them and then cast them off once they started to get old, and basically left them with nothing.

He's always, and I mean always been paranoid about the size of his nose ...G...

Meeting in an elevator because you had to escape a fight is the most Philly meet-cute ever.

As Daryl says, the first time around for "She's Gone" wasn't a big deal. I don't know how much airplay they got elsewhere but in my town it would only get played late at night. So night birds like me felt we had our own little band in Hall & Oates. When they did break and "She's Gone" went big along with "Sarah Smile" I felt a little ownership of that. After all these years these two guys are still great songwriters and performers and have always been a class act. Not bad for a couple of guys from Philly.

Folks this is the reality of the biz even for those both beautiful and talented. Imagine being a great songwriter who just isn’t sexy? Nope. No music dreams for you. It’s a biz full of people who should be fashion models with no affinity for artists.

man, looks great!!! So talented.

Sad to hear that there fighting over music rights or money or woteva.. which happens often.. between band members.. that have been together. Years

Prince said the same thing about the music industry💜💜💜