{"id":141926,"date":"2025-08-13T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141926\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:36:15","slug":"daryl-hall-and-john-oates-legal-dispute-ends-in-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141926\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall and John Oates Legal Dispute Ends in Arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDaryl Hall<\/a> and John Oates<\/a>\u2018 legal dispute is over, as the matter has ended out of court, according to legal documents filed in Nashville on Monday. <\/p>\n

\n\tHall\u2019s suit against Oates has ended in arbitration, per Rolling Stone,<\/a> meaning there are no details on how the matter actually resolved, or what the terms of the voluntary dismissal were. Hall had first sued his longtime songwriting partner in November 2023 <\/a>over Oates\u2019 intent to sell his half of their joint venture Whole Oates Enterprises to the music<\/a> company Primary Wave<\/a>. As Rolling Stone reported <\/a>at the time, Hall called Oates\u2019 intent to sell his half the \u201cultimate partnership betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is no amount of money that could compensate me for being forced to partner with an entity that I did not agree to partner with, and whose business model does not comport with my views,\u201d Hall wrote in a declaration.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, a judge ruled to temporarily block any such sale while the matter was being resolved. Attorneys for both Hall and Oates didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tHall & Oates formed one of the most formidable duos of their generation, making hits like \u201cRich Girl,\u201d \u201cKiss On My List\u201d and \u201cManeater,\u201d among others. The dispute served as their demise, with Oates telling Rolling Stone last year <\/a>that \u201cwe have a different strategy for our lives, and we have a different strategy for our business lives as well as our personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHall apparently agrees, telling The Times in February<\/a>, \u201cThat ship has gone to the bottom of the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s unclear whether the development means Oates can sell to Primary Wave. Reps for the company didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrimary Wave is one of the most active companies in the catalog acquisition space, having previously made deals with the likes of Stevie Nicks, the estate of Biggie Smalls and, most recently, original Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green, among many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daryl Hall and John Oates\u2018 legal dispute is over, as the matter has ended out of court, according…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[84191,171,84193,975,84475,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-141926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-daryl-hall","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-john-oates","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-primary-wave","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115020548210639710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}