John Oates shoots down Corridor & Oates reunion and says he has “moved on”

John Oates has dismissed a future Corridor & Oates reunion saying he has “moved on”.

It comes after Daryl Corridor mentioned he was suing Oates after claiming that he was left “blindsided” by his plan to promote a enterprise stake final November – whereas the latter described the claims as “inaccurate”.

In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, when requested if an official finish date needs to be added to the profession of some of the profitable pop duos of all time?, Oates mentioned: “You possibly can ask Daryl the identical query. However, sure. So far as I’m involved, I’ve moved on. I really feel like I’ve a brand new lease on my artistic life.”

He continued: “A superb buddy of mine mentioned one thing to me when this was all beginning. He mentioned, ‘John, you had been a musician earlier than you met Daryl, and also you’re nonetheless a musician. You’re a person.’ And Daryl and I’ve at all times known as ourselves Daryl Corridor and John Oates, as a result of we at all times needed to be perceived as two people who work collectively. That was crucial to us. If you happen to take a look at the albums, you’ll see that on each album. And so that is the last word expression of that.”

Though he isn’t open to a reunion, Oates mentioned he could be open to repairing their friendship sooner or later.

He added: “I’m at all times open for that. Daryl Corridor is an incredible particular person. He is without doubt one of the nice, nice songwriters of all time, and indubitably, one of many nice singers of all time. I might by no means say something unfavourable about him.

“However we’ve got a special technique for our lives, and we’ve got a special technique for our enterprise lives in addition to our private lives. And that’s that, so be it. We’re outdated guys. We need to be allowed to do no matter we need to do.”

When requested if they may ever get again collectively he continued: “I do not know. However I don’t see it. I actually don’t. Life is humorous although. You by no means know what sort of curve it should throw you.”

He additionally commented on their present dispute calling it “a really boring enterprise problem”.

“There’s at all times disputes when individuals are well-known. Persons are at all times fascinated concerning the dynamics of a duo,” he mentioned. “And to be fairly trustworthy, Daryl and I’ve a enterprise partnership, and there was some issues concerning the enterprise that we disagreed with, which occurs on a regular basis in enterprise. And we’re going to work it out.”

Oates’ newest feedback echo an interview he did on David Yontef’s Behind the Velvet Rope podcast, on the finish of final yr, On the time he mentioned their music “will stand the check of time”, however he has additionally “moved on”.