Daryl Hall & John Oates (met in an elevator) , known more commonly as Hall & Oates, is an American musical duo from Philadelphia. They are best known for their six No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: Rich Girl, Kiss on My List, Private Eyes, I Cant Go for That (No Can Do), Maneater, and Out of Touch, as well as many other songs which charted in the Top 40. In total, they had 34 chart hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, seven RIAA platinum albums, and six RIAA gold albums.[2] Because of that chart success, Billboard magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing The Everly Brothers. Daryl Franklin Hall (born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1946) and John William Oates (born April 7, 1949) first met each other at the Adelphi Ballroom in Philadelphia in 1967. At the time they met, each was heading his own musical group, Hall with The Temptones and Oates with The Masters. They were there for a band competition when gunfire rang out between two rival gangs, and in trying to escape, they ran to the same service elevator. On further discovering that they were interested in the same music and that both were attending Philadelphias Temple University, they started spending time together on a regular basis and eventually shared a number of apartments in the city. One of the apartments they shared had Hall & Oates on the mailbox, which became the duos name. It would take them another two years to form a musical duo, and three years after that, they signed to Atlantic Records and released their debut album. The two didnt seriously start working together until 1970 after Oates got back from an extended stay in Europe.
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