{"id":64679,"date":"2025-08-13T19:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64679\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:09:15","slug":"daryl-hall-and-john-oates-have-resolved-their-bitter-legal-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64679\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall and John Oates have resolved their bitter legal dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daryl Hall<\/a> and John Oates have resolved their bitter legal battles in private.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Does Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Kill Braincells?! \u2013 John Oates, Hall & Oates<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hall & Oates<\/a> pair have been embroiled in a legal battle after Hall announced he was suing Oates after claiming that he was left \u201cblindsided\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by his plan to\u00a0sell a business stake<\/a> in November 2023 \u2013 which Oates described as \u201cinaccurate\u201d.<\/p>\n

Per a statement obtained by Rolling Stone<\/a>, Hall\u2019s lawyers shared that the musician\u2019s claims against Oates \u201chave been adjudicated in arbitration. Given the entry of final judgment in arbitration, plaintiffs will be contemporaneously filing a notice of voluntary dismissal with the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Details surrounding the arbitration have not been revealed, and it is not clear when the outcome was finalised, although Hall\u2019s lawyers filed a status report on Monday (August 12) in Nashville.<\/p>\n

The 2023 lawsuit saw Hall accuse his bandmate of making a \u201ccompletely clandestine and bad faith move\u201d<\/a> by trying to sell a share of their business without Hall\u2019s consent. It also claimed that he was only told about the deal to sell half of Whole Oats Enterprises (WOE) to Primary Wave just two days before he was set to leave on a month-long tour.<\/p>\n

Hall objected to the sale as he disagreed with the \u201cbusiness model\u201d of Primary Wave, and thought a sale could do \u201cunimaginable\u201d harm to the trademarks, personal name, royalties and online properties of Whole Oats Enterprises.<\/p>\n

Since the bitter dispute, both Hall and Oates have confirmed that a reunion between the two will never happen. Hall said in March this year<\/a>: \u201cThat ship has gone to the bottom of the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amidst their legal battle, Oates reflected on their relationship in December 2023<\/a>, saying that\u00a0although he believes Hall & Oates\u2019 catalogue \u201cwill stand the test of time\u201d, he has also \u201cmoved on\u201d.<\/p>\n

The musician also\u00a0shot down any plans of a reunion<\/a>. After being\u00a0asked if there was an official end date to their partnership, Oates replied: \u201cYou can ask Daryl the same question. But, yes. As far as I\u2019m concerned, I\u2019ve moved on. I feel like I have a new lease on my creative life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oates added he was \u201copen\u201d to staying friends with Hall, calling him \u201can amazing individual\u201d. \u201cHe is one of the great, great songwriters of all time, and without a doubt, one of the great singers of all time. I would never say anything negative about him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have a different strategy for our lives, and we have a different strategy for our business lives as well as our personal lives. And that\u2019s that, so be it. We\u2019re old guys. We deserve to be allowed to do whatever we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall and John Oates have resolved their bitter legal battles in private. READ MORE:\u00a0Does Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-64679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-pop","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}