Hall & Oates

by Brad Gooch

Describes the lives of Daryl Hall and John Oates, discusses the development of their music, and depicts their struggle to achieve success

147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 12, 1984

About the author

Brad Gooch is the author of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (Little, Brown, 2009.) His previous books include City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; as well as Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; three novels--Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity, Zombie00; a collection of stories, Jailbait and Other Stories, chosen by Donald Barthelme for a Pushcart Foundation Writer’s Choice Award; a collection of poems, The Daily News; and two memoirs, Finding the Boyfriend Within and Dating the Greek Gods.

His work has been featured in numerous magazines including: The New Republic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Partisan Review, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Art Forum, Harper’s Bazaar, The Nation, and regularly on The Daily Beast.

A Guggenheim fellow in Biography, he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a Furthermore grant in publishing from the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

A professor of English at William Paterson University, he earned his PhD at Columbia University, and lives in New York City.

Reviews

[MK · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a huge Hall and Oates fan and I eagerly bought this when it came out. It's your standard "everything you want to know about" but it's extensively researched and well written. I still have this copy, in as bad a shape it is, I can't bring myself to let it go. And I may very well find myself re-reading it someday.