Posted on 08/12/2025 3:51:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Daryl Hall and John Oates have resolved their dispute over Oates’ plan to sell his half of their joint venture to Primary Wave Music. Court documents filed Aug. 11 reveal the legal back-and-forth between the duo has now been privately resolved, without any additional information on their deal.
The pair started litigation in 2023 when Hall launched arbitration seeking to block Oates from selling his stake in Whole Oats Enterprises — this includes the band’s name and likeness rights as well as royalties — to Primary Wave.
Primary Wave has become a music-catalog marketing powerhouse over the past 15 years, acquiring assets from Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Prince and many other artists and marketing those assets largely in cooperation with the artists’ reps or estates. As a storied heritage act with dozens of hits that spawned in the 1970s and ‘80s (songs such as “Kiss on My List” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do”), Hall and Oates fit into their business model.
A Nashville judge temporarily blocked Oates’ proposed sale of his share in November of 2023, ruling that the proposed deal could not go through until an arbitrator could decide whether to impose a restraining order.
In the 2023 filings, Hall accused Oates of blindsiding and betraying him. Oates replied in his own filings that he was “deeply hurt” Hall was making “inflammatory, outlandish, and inaccurate statements” about him.
Representatives for Hall and Oates did not immediately return Variety‘s request for comment.
Oates told The Associated Press in 2024 that he’s had “no communication” with Hall and declined to discuss the legal proceedings. He also said that a reunion was “not in my plans at all.”
“You can ask Daryl Hall what he thinks,” he said at the time. “But for me personally, no.”
I’ll have to check that one out. I certainly haven’t seen them all. Good stuff.
Nah. A lot of these old Boomer acts are trying to unload their publishing rights while they're still worth something.
Oates, who has no career at the moment, thought the time was right. Hall, who has a very minor career at the moment disagreed.
What I want, you got and it might be hard to handle.
Their best hits are indelible. And Daryl Hall could really sing.
Feud resolved. They will now be known as Daryl Hannah and Quaker Oats.
Wish I could do that.
Fripp and Toyah’s videos are the best.
I loved Daryl’s House with different artists. I appreciate the music from the 70s and 80s a lot more now, even the songs I didn’t care for much back then. AI will destroy everything which I think is its whole purpose.
I’m just happy they built a bridge over troubled waters.
Well if Oasis can reunite, anything is possible.
8~)
Oh yeah ..
Rick’s cool.
My wife wants me to play guitar on youtu.be. I refuse.
There is gonna be all kinds of intellectual property stolen. Worse than ever.
Music, images, voices, etc.. gone into the net. Stolen.
We cannot stop this ai train, this mortar-forker is full steam ahead. Truth.
That was Simon and Garfunkel
This is total ai.....
Connor McNugget~paper weight.
https://youtube.com/shorts/85pfe35QoI8?si=k8qtbGTYKQScb1Aj
We saw them 8 years ago and they were quite good. Tears for Fears was the warm up.
Ditto the Davies brothers / The Kinks.
To bad. They were pretty good in concert. Saw them in the mid 80s. Great musicians and pop writers.
Will they write a song and sing about it.
I saw them in concert right before this happened. They were not good. Sounded really bad. It was sad.
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