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DO WHAT YOU WANT, BE WHAT YOU ARE: THE MUSIC OF DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATESFIRST COMPREHENSIVE DELUXE BOX SET ON PHILLY DUO –4 CDs SPAN 1966-2009 –74 TRACKS INCLUDING HITS,ALBUM TRACKS, LIVE TRACKS, RARITIES & 2009 REMIX;FEATURES 16PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKSEVERY #1 hit: “Rich Girl,” “Kiss On My List,” “Private Eyes,”“I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do),” “Maneater,” “Out Of Touch”EVERY Top 10 hit: “She’s Gone,” “Sara Smile,” “You Make My Dreams,”“Did It In A Minute,” “One On One,” “Family Man,” “Say It Isn’t So,”“Adult Education,” “Method Of Modern Love,” “Everything Your Heart Desires”60-page full color booklet includes liner notes and track-by-track interview annotations –plus testimonials from Gamble& Huff, Carly Simon, Mick Jagger, Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy), David Foster, Dave Stewart, Todd Rundgren,Nile Rodgers, Rob Thomas, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Smokey Robinson, and many more!Available at physical and digitalretail outlets starting October 6ththroughRCA/Legacy“QVC Presents the Daryl Hall andJohn Oates QSessions Live” launch event set for Monday, September 21st, 6:00 p.m. (ET)–60-minuteinterview and live performance special, for shoppers to pre-order box setHomecoming date set for Philly Spectrum in October –before demolitionMore than four decades after they started working together, the foundations of Daryl Hall andJohn Oatesremain firmly planted in their native Philadelphia ’60s and ’70s soul and R&B, with the spirit of Gamble & Huff, Motown, the Adelphi Ballroom, and Tower Theatre never far from their thoughts. With more than 60 million album sales
under their belt, Daryl Hall andJohn Oates have long since surpassed the Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel as the biggest-selling –and longest lived –pop duo of all time. A hefty chunk of those sales belong to the string of hit singles that kept Daryl Hall andJohn Oates at the top of the pop, R&B, AC, Dance, and album rock charts during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. There were six timeless #1 hits on the BillboardHot 100 –“Rich Girl,” “Kiss On My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do),” “Maneater,” and “Out Of Touch.”Anothertwo dozen reached the Top 40, ten of which made it into the Top 10, among them “She’s Gone,” “Sara Smile,” “You Make My Dreams”(soundtrack centerpiece of the new hit movie (500) Days of Summer),“Did It In A Minute,” “One On One,” “Family Man,” “Say It Isn’t So,” “Adult Education,” “Method Of Modern Love,” and “Everything Your Heart Desires.”The lion’s share of those singles helped send more than a dozen Daryl Hall andJohn Oates albums to RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum certification, starting with 1973’s Abandoned Luncheonette, and most notably encompassing their career-defining output ofthe ’80s:Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, Rock ’N Soul Part 1, Big Bam Boom, and the highly praised Live At The Apollo With David Ruffin & Eddie Kendrick. Taking its title from one of their earliest singles, a song that has always summed up the duo’s individual and collective philosophy of being true to themselves, DO WHAT YOU WANT, BE WHAT YOU ARE:THE MUSIC OF DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATESmarks the first comprehensive multi-CD, multi-label deluxe box set compilation ever assembled from their entire career’s work,four CDs containing 74 tracks (16of them previously unreleased ). One of the most long-awaited box sets in pop music history will be available at physical and digital retail outlets starting October 6ththrough RCA/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.Of special interest will be the 16previously unreleasedtracks, which can be roughly divided between studio material and live performances. Highlights of the live performances include:“Lady Rain,” “Beanie G,” “Better Watch Your Back,” “Abandoned Luncheon-ette,” and “When The Morning Comes,” five tunes [all drawn from their Abandoned Luncheonette(1973) and War Babies(1974) LPs]recorded at the New Victoria Theatre in London on October 3, 1975, the first Daryl Hall andJohn Oates show in England, where their popularity would rival the U.S.;“I Want Someone,” from 2008, the firstaudio ever releasedfrom the popular LiveFromDarylsHouse.comweb series–one of the songs that bonded Daryl Hall and JohnOates together back in the ’60s, when they realized that they both loved the tune, as first done by Detroit R&B vocal group the Mad Lads on Stax-Volt in 1966;“Everytime You Go Away,” recorded 1996 in Tokyo, an explosive 10-minute version of the song that was introduced on 1980’s Voices, and became a massive #1 U.S. hit for England’s Paul Young in 1985;“Starting All Over Again,” recorded at Tokyo’s Budokan in 1995, an evocative take on Mel & Tim’s 1973soul standard (originally covered by Daryl Hall andJohn Oates in 1990, on Change Of Season);