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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Ross

Daryl Hall review – despite strained vocals, this 80s pop legend isn’t totally out of touch

Daryl Hall plays SEC Armadillo, Glasgow.
‘After all these years … time is talking to me’ … Daryl Hall plays SEC Armadillo, Glasgow. Photograph: Calum Buchan/The Guardian

Hall & Oates sold a gazillion records and deserve every dollar. Their songs of the 1970s and 80s are pure pleasure; sun-kissed, smooth and mellow. It is a music of high noon, no shadows.

But what happens when twilight comes? Daryl Hall is 78. The partnership with John Oates, 77, has reached a messy end, with lawyers involved. Now he is on the road, under his own name, playing the songs of his gilded youth in a more tarnished age.

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