Steve Jennings/WireImageDaryl Hall and John Oates are currently in the middle of a successful tour with Train. Though the duo has been together for 48 years, and both are over 70 years old, Hall at least has no plans to retire. In fact, he says he thinks it’s “weird” that stars like Elton John and Paul Simon have announced “farewell” tours.
Speaking to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hall says, “As long as I like doing it [I’ll keep touring]. I don’t understand announcing retirement. I don’t get it. It’s weird. I ain’t buying it. They have their reasons, but I don’t share them.”
He explains, “It’s one thing I can do that I completely control my own environment. It’s good energy; physically it’s good. I’m a singer, man. I like to get in front of people and sing. It works for me just fine. I don’t love going out for long periods of time, but it’s all part of the game.”
In addition to shunning retirement, Hall says he also has no plans to do what rock stars from Rod Stewart to Bruce Springsteen to Keith Richards have done: write his life story.
“I’m not interested in autobiographies,” he tells the publication. However, Daryl does say that before John Oates published his autobiography, Change of Seasons, in 2017, he “made sure I was O.K. with it.”
Hall & Oates’ tour with Train continues this Friday in Tampa, Florida, and is scheduled to wrap up Aug. 11 in Seattle. Meanwhile, the two acts’ joint single “Philly Forget Me Not” is a top-15 hit on Billboard‘s Adult Contemporary chart.
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