Daryl Hall has dismissed his legal claims against John Oates, his partner in hit musical duo Hall and Oates.
Legal documents viewed by Entertainment Weekly show that Hall made the move official on Aug. 11, and it was approved a day later.
Details were sealed, per Hall’s attorney, PEOPLE reported.
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Hall and Oates perform in 2022
EW has reached out to reps for both Hall and Oates.
Hall had sued his collaborator on songs such as “Rich Girl,” “She’s Gone,” and “You Make My Dreams” in 2023 in Chancery Court in Nashville, Tenn. In his filing, which was against Oates, as well as his wife Aimee J. Oates and Richard Flynn, both of whom were co-trustees of The John W. Oates TISA Trust, Hall included a motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent Oates from selling his stake of their joint venture, Whole Oats Enterprises, to Primary Wave Music.
At the time, Hall said the sale would go against a business agreement between the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. He further said that the move was just his former partner’s “latest wrongdoing” and noted that he thought he had timed it to be the most painful it could be.
“This recent bad faith conduct by John Oates and the Oates Trust has created tremendous upheaval, harm, and difficulty in my life,” Hall said, “not to mention unnecessary expense and burden, during a time when I am in the middle of a tour throughout the U.S. West Coast, Japan, and Manilla and need to focus and perform at top level.”
Oates and Hall had “always looked at ourselves as individuals working together,” Oates explained on Good Morning America in May 2024, and he thought taking the “pretty common” step of selling his catalog was a way to do that.
He also told PEOPLE that the financial side of his work with Hall had been strained.
“I think what happened was our partnership was established 50 years ago, and the documentation of that partnership was outdated and completely irrelevant to the people we became 50 years later,” Oates said. “And when it was time to reevaluate how to modernize and how to make that partnership function in a better way, we had changed so radically as people that there was really no way to compromise on that.”
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Hall and Oates released their first album, Whole Oats, in 1972, and went on to record more than a dozen albums, including Ooh Yeah! and Voices, over the following three-plus decades that followed. Their final album was a collection of Christmas songs, Home for Christmas, released in 2006.
According to Hall and Oates’ official website, the Grammy-nominated artists have sold more records than any other duo in music history.
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