Daryl Corridor and John Oates’ musical partnership resulted in a few of pop’s most enduring tunes – however it appears the possibilities of them ever teaming up once more is someplace between zero and nil.
The pair have hits to their identify together with Maneater, I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) and Out of Contact, however their partnership hit an deadlock in 2023 when Oates set about promoting his stake of their publishing firm, and Corridor filed a lawsuit to stop him, calling Oates’ transfer “the final word partnership betrayal.”
Now, in an interview with The Instances of London, Corridor was requested concerning the prospect of reuniting with Oates, or had that ship sailed? He replied:
That ship has gone to the underside of the ocean,” Corridor says. “I’ve had numerous surprises in my life, disappointments, betrayals, so I’m sort of used to it.” And he added: “I’ve been concerned with some fairly shady characters over time. That’s the place the issues begin.”
The pair met as college students and broke via as a performing due within the early Seventies. They went on to promote 60 million information and earn 16 US Prime Ten singles at their peak. Of their respective contributions to the challenge, Corridor reported: “The songs along with his lead vocal are the songs he wrote, and all the opposite ones, which is about 90 per cent, are those I wrote.”
Corridor mirrored in The Instances interview that he had by no means succumbed to drug temptations on the highway on the top of their success – “they by no means agreed with me” – however for all the pieces else? “Simply watch Spinal Faucet.”
