| But stuff like a
chewing-gum tour takes its toll on one's artistic credibility. The fact that Daryl Hall
has one of the greatest voices around, that he's one of the smoothest, most technically
perfect singers ever, is glossed over by the fact that he's also a mainstream pop star.
"It's weird," Hall says, without a trace of irony. "I'm just about the best
singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my
voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it. Americans think that if
you're popular there must be something wrong with you. To me, the best music now is music
that everyone's listening to. Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in
obscurity." Hall pauses to spear some more pasta. This subject clearly frustrates
him; Oates shrugs it off. |
“I think we’re the Eighties
Beatles,” Hall continues. “If we had been born twenty years earlier, maybe the
world would have seen that. There’s something about our personalities that is very
Lennon-and-McCartneyesque. And there is something about the body of work that we both have
that’s similar.” Hall pauses again. “I know people will have trouble
accepting that,” he says finally. “But I don’t have any trouble accepting
it.”
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Daryl Hall and John Oates
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