Hall & Oates Live

Daryl Hall and John Oates met and began performing together in the late 1960s, linked by their shared taste in soul and R&B music. They would spend the '70s crafting their blue-eyed soul with such albums as "War Babies," "Abandoned Luncheonette" and "Bigger Than The Both Of Us," before becoming one of the top selling duos of all time in the 1980s. Captured here are performances from 1976 to 1977, when "Bigger Than The Both Of Us" was climbing the charts on the strength of their first #1 single, "Rich Girl," which is featured in this program.

Though Daryl Hall and John Oates reigned as two of the finest blue-eyed soulsters of the 1970s, the close of that decade saw them expanding their Philly sound with radio-friendly pop and disco influences. The result--a canny synthesis of their doo-wop soul roots with New Wave energy and hard-rock grit--made Hall & Oates one of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop acts of the 1980s. This concert film captures the band in their early years, performing live renditions of "Rich Girl," "Sara Smile," and seven other songs culled from their soulful albums BIGGER THAN THE BOTH OF US, ABANDONED LUNCHEONETTE, and WAR BABIES.