A legal battle is underway between Hall & Oates, with Daryl Hall filing a lawsuit against John Oates with the Nashville Chancery Court earlier this month.
Details on the case a sparse currently - the judge having granted permission for the lawsuit to be sealed - although court documents show it as being categorised under “contract/debt”. They also show that Hall sought a temporary restraining order against his former musical collaborator, which was seemingly granted on 17 Nov and will go into effect on 30 Nov.
Although the last Hall & Oates record - 'Home For Christmas' - was released in 2006, the duo toured together as recently as October 2022. They released eighteen albums together between 1972 and 2006.
In its report on the litigation, TMZ notes that when Hall appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast last year he was very keen to stress that Oates was his "business partner" rather than his "creative partner", stressing that, while they made records together, "we’ve always been very separate and that’s a really important thing for me".