John Oates: Why I’m credited in Hall & Oates after Daryl Hall

nypost.com:

Daryl Hall and John Oates always wanted to be looked at as individuals for their talent — so their band name, Hall & Oates, never did them any favors.Three years before Hall, 77, filed a lawsuit against his longtime music collaborator, Oates revealed why they never decided to flip the moniker to “Oates & Hall.”“He’s taller and older than me, so there you go!” Oates, 75, told The Post ahead of their sold-out Madison Square Garden show in New York City in February 2020.Years earlier, Hall would give his own take on their decision while speaking with the San Jose Mercury News.“The reason we’ve always insisted on our full names is because we consider ourselves to be two individual artists.

We’re not really a classic duo in that respect,” he told the newspaper in 2017. “We don’t really do a lot together other than share a stage.”“We always wanted to be looked at as separate people,” the rocker continued. “It’s just one of those things.

For the most part, people do relate to us as individual artists as well as for what we do together.”Hall appeared to get annoyed when the outlet then informed him that when “Hall & Oates” is Googled, the question “Which one is Oates?” pops up.“That’s what came up after all these years? ‘Which one is John Oates?'” Hall replied, laughing. “Well, that’s the f – – king stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”Hall and his organization, the Daryl Hall Revocable Trust, filed a lawsuit suing Oates, Oates’ trust, the John W.

Oates TISA Trust and its co-trustees in Davidson County Chancery Court on Nov. 16 in Nashville, Tennessee, according to court records viewed by The Post.The documents are labeled as relating to a “contract/debt” suit and are currently sealed, but a source tells TMZ that the legal battle.