Amongst a few other albums (Broken Bells – Self Tiled, Crazy Heart Soundtrack, Soldier of Love – Sade, Have One on Me – Joanna Newsom, Dark Night of the Soul – Dangermouse and Sparklehorse) that have been on rotation on my iPhone the past couple weeks, “The Essential Collection – Daryl Hall and John Oates” has been keeping me particularly nostalgic. I’m always impressed by how many era defining pop hits they had in the 80s.
The incessant researcher in me likes to read up on artists I’m listening to (especially the older ones), so I’ll consult Wikipedia, NME, and take a look at YouTube (not exactly reading) every once in a while. Knowing that “She’s Gone” was Hall & Oates’ first recorded hit¹, I figured it would be worth it to see how they were rocking in the ’70s. Below I share with you what I found.
This video is either a testimony to the strangeness of the 70s or an example of how a group survived a close call with infamy. It’s almost as if they blew their entire music video budget on drugs and hair spray and hired the local public access station crew to produce their music video. What ever the cost of the video, the result is priceless.
¹It’s technically their second top ten, but it was covered twice by other artists and originally recorded about 5 years before it was re-released.
