John Oates Biography

One half of the successful musical duo ‘Hall & Oates’, John Oates is a popular American singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer. His partner Daryl Hall was the lead singer while Oates was the guitarist. However, Oates often doubled as the songwriter for the duo penning several chartbusters. Together with Hall, Oates produced hits such as ‘Rich Girl’, ‘Kiss on My List’, ‘Private Eyes’, ‘I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)’, ‘Maneater’ and ‘Out of Touch’. The successful pair of Hall & Oates registered 34 super hits on the US Billboard Hot 100. They had seven RIAA platinum albums and six RIAA gold albums. Hall & Oates came to be known as the most successful artists of the rock era. Separately, Oates also recorded singles such as ‘How Does It Feel to Be Back’ and ‘You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin’ both of which went on to feature in the ‘Hot 100’ list. Billboard magazine once named Hall & Oates as the greatest music duo of all time. The song ‘Shape of Things to Come’ from the 1986 film ‘About Last Night’ was written by Oates. He also co-worked on the song ‘Electric Blue’ which was produced by the Australian band ‘Icehouse’. He was involved in the writing, singing and producing aspects of the song ‘Love is Fire’ created by the Canadian group ‘The Parachute Club’ which featured amongst the top 30 hits in Canada.