Today’s Hall & Oates song is special to me because once upon a time I ended up making a bit of money from it. A friend of mine always told me that to really make it as a broadcaster (and probably as a man as well) I would have to risk everything I had, go…
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Check Out Daryl Hall’s Hilari-Awesome Sunglasses On TOTP In 1977! Hall & Oates Song Of The Day, Day 2 – Countdown To Their NZ Concert
For day two in my Hall & Oates countdown before their Auckland concert on Sunday night, I’ve decided to go for the song Brandon Flowers from the Killers once described as “everything you need to know in writing a hit song.” Rich Girl is perfect pop: two and a half minutes of punchy, hooktastic ear-candy which…
Counting Down To Hall & Oates’ NZ Concert – When Daryl Hall & Pat Monahan Made ‘Wait For Me’ Even Better Than The Original
Summer has finally poked through in Auckland after threatening to do so since as far back as September. Just in time, because this coming weekend the duo who have had more hit songs and albums than any other in music history are playing A Day On The Green. Hall & Oates are in New Zealand…
The Greatest Bagpipe Songs Of All Time – Who Knew Glen Campbell Could Play The Bagpipes?
Glen Campbell. With the killjoy minor tragedy of no bagpipes allowed into Rugby World Cup games, we had a rip-roaring discussion on Newstalk ZB that spanned not one, but two mornings, on the finest bagpipe songs of all time. This was much to the screwed-up face scorn of Mike Hosking’s producer Glenn who is “suspicious of…
Hall & Oates Announce New Zealand Tour – Why They Were So Underrated
Daryl Hall & John Oates. I was a music geek, even as a kid and can still remember going to the public library in downtown Kuala Lumpur as a 7 year old, taking out the book 20 Names In Pop Music and learning about all the acts who would soon become my heroes. As a…
Enrique Iglesias Is An Idiot – Dropping F-Bombs In Popular Music
Tell me what you really think Enrique. A couple of weeks back a very prim and proper lady of probable Chinese descent came up to me at the Club Med disco and asked if she could request a song. As money dripped off her wrists and fingers, she pointed at my computer screen and commanded: “Tonight…
The Colbie Caillat Interview, On The Brink Of Stardom – August 2007
You’d think she’d be sick of being asked about them. After all, her dad produced Rumours, Tusk and Mirage – three albums that sold more than 40 million copies between them. He was there when Stevie and Lindsey were interchanging vicious argument for sublime harmony. He was the one who mortified the band by tipping…
