Daryl Hall talks his rift with John Oates

UNSPECIFIED – JANUARY 01: Photo of Daryl HALL and John OATES and HALL & OATES; L-R: Daryl Hall, John Oates, (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)

Both Daryl Hall and John Oates have stated publicly that their duo is over, and Hall seems more than fine with that.

Speaking with ‘Billboard,’ Hall said,

“John and I did not have a creative relationship for decades; the last song I wrote with John was in 2000 and that was with somebody else.”

He continued,

“We toured and we toured and we toured, and it was very restrictive to me, and to John. The real truth of it all is John just said one day he didn’t want to do it anymore… I said ‘OK,’ but the problem is [Oates] didn’t make the parting and breakup easy, and that’s where the difficulties lay and still lay, and that’s all it is.”