John Oates

John William Oates born April 7 1948 is an American musician best known as half of the rock and soul duo Hall Oates along with Daryl Hall He has played rock RB and soul music serving as a guitarist singer songwriter and record producer Although Oatess main role in the duo is being the guitarist he also cowrote many of the top 10 songs that they recorded including Sara Smile referring to Halls thengirlfriend Sara Allen Shes Gone and Out of Touch as well as You Make My Dreams I Cant Go for That No Can Do Maneater and Adult Education He also sang lead vocals on several more singles in the Hot 100 such as How Does It Feel to Be Back Youve Lost That Lovin Feelin a remake of the 1965 song performed by the Righteous Brothers and Possession Obsession In 1986 Oates contributed the song Shes the Shape of Things to Come on the soundtrack to the 1986 film About Last Night He also cowrote and sang backup on the song Electric Blue recorded by the Australian band Icehouse which was a Billboard top 10 hit Oates was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004 and in 2014 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Hall Oates His memoir Change of Seasons was published in 2017 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Oates licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia