Daryl Corridor has filed a restraining order in opposition to his one-time musical collaborator, John Oates. The pair made up the pop rock duo Corridor & Oates, and put out 18 studio albums collectively between 1972 and 2006.
Corridor filed the momentary restraining order request in a Nashville Chancery Courtroom on Nov. 16. Oates and the co-defendants – his spouse, Aimee J. Oates, and enterprise supervisor Richard Flynn, who’re each co-trustees of his belief – have been served on Nov. 20.
It’s unclear what promoted the restraining order, however it’s labeled as a Contract/Debt case on the web site for the Nashville Chancery Courtroom. CBS Information has reached out to Corridor’s lawyer in addition to Flynn for additional data, and is awaiting a response.
Whereas they put out a number of hits like “Wealthy Lady” and “You Make My Goals Come True” and have been nominated for 5 Grammys collectively, the duo seems to have grown aside. Throughout an interview on the “Membership Random with Invoice Maher” final 12 months, Corridor mentioned they’ve “all the time been very separate.”
“John and I are brothers, however we aren’t artistic brothers,” Corridor mentioned. “We’re enterprise companions. We made data known as Corridor & Oates collectively, however we have all the time been very separate, and that is a extremely necessary factor for me.” Corridor additionally mentioned he did many of the work, citing the duo’s 1980 music “Kiss on My Checklist,” for which Oates will not be labeled as a songwriter, however Corridor is.
Corridor, 77, and Oates, 75, met whereas they have been freshmen at Temple College. Throughout a 2013 interview with Dan Moderately, Corridor mentioned they met at a gig. A battle broke out, and so they left within the elevator collectively and struck up a dialog that led to a friendship and musical collaboration.
In 2017, forward of a tour collectively, the duo sat down with “CBS Sunday Morning” for an interview.Â
“Did I feel that I might be working with John and we would be sitting side-by-side all these years later?” Corridor mentioned. “No, it did not even happen to me.”
“Our job is the job that everybody goals of,” mentioned Oates. “Play devices, sing, write music, make data. Why would you wanna give up?”
“When you look on each album we have ever made, it says, ‘Daryl Corridor and John Oates,'” mentioned Oates. “Now, it could appear a refined distinction. However we have all the time checked out ourselves as two people who’re distinctly completely different, who work collectively. And to today, that is how we view ourselves.”