Daryl Hall confirms Hall & Oates split amid legal battles [Video]

Daryl Hall has confirmed the end of Hall & Oates, his decades-long partnership with bandmate John Oates, following a months-long legal battle.

In November 2023, Hall, 77, filed a lawsuit against Oates, 76, after the latter tried to sell his share of the duo’s jointly owned company, Whole Oats Enterprises LLP. Hall called Oates’s plan the “ultimate partnership betrayal”.

“It hit me by surprise,” Hall told Variety in a new interview. “All I can say is people change and sometimes you don’t really know someone like you thought you did.

“Difficulties can be made from things that aren’t difficult, and then it goes to a place where it can never come back from. It’s unfortunate and untimely, but some things just change. People rewrite history and harbor thoughts you had no idea …