{"id":803582,"date":"2020-01-29T06:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=942844"},"modified":"2020-01-29T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:29:40","slug":"daryl-hall-john-oates-are-plotting-a-new-album-not-a-50th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/daryl-hall-john-oates-are-plotting-a-new-album-not-a-50th-anniversary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall & John Oates Are Plotting a New Album, Not a 50th Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daryl Hall<\/a> & John Oates<\/a> are going to spend much of the summer on the road with Squeeze and KT Tunstall,<\/a> but when tour wraps, they\u2019re hoping to turn their attention to their first collection of new songs since 2003\u2019s Do It For Love.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the process right now of coming up with some ideas,\u201d Hall tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve been working with some people on them right now; I don\u2019t want to talk about yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, he\u2019s working on the music independently from Oates. \u201cI have so much going on, so to be honest I\u2019m not quite there,\u201d Oates says. \u201cDaryl has shifted his focus to Hall & Oates<\/a>, which is great. I\u2019m going to jump on board, for sure, but it\u2019s in the early, preliminary days of it. He\u2019s very excited and he\u2019s been spending some time in Europe. He\u2019s found some young producers he\u2019s kind of getting energized with. He\u2019ll jumpstart the process and then I\u2019ll definitely jump on board later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall explains that this method of beginning an album on his own and bringing Oates in later is far from from unusual. \u201cWe don\u2019t write together very much, never did really,\u201d he says. \u201cWe went separate ways creatively. We needed to have that space apart in that respect, even though we never stopped playing together, but now it just feels\u2026I don\u2019t know how to describe it. When it feels right, it feels right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Groups led by two people have been notoriously unstable in rock history. The list is endless, but everyone from the Everly Brothers to Simon & Garfunkel, the Kinks, Oasis and the Black Crowes have struggled to stay together. Somehow or another, Hall & Oates have avoided the dark fates of those acts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference is that we aren\u2019t a duo,\u201d Hall says. \u201cWe aren\u2019t Simon and Garfunkel. We are two people that run a band. It\u2019s more like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.\u201d (Those two have certainly had their share of public disagreements over the years, but his point stands.)<\/p>\n