After some 53 years together, we may have been forgiven for assuming that the musical partnership between Daryl Hall and John Oates was one of the most solid in show business. But this week brought the astonishing news that the mega-selling duo are embroiled in litigation, with Hall filing a lawsuit and a restraining order against his lifelong bandmate for reasons as yet unknown. Maybe life has finally imitated art for a band who most famously sang: “I can’t go for that, no can do” but this is far from the most acrimonious of musical creative partnerships.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

Still one of the most famous singing duos of all time, things soured for the former elementary school buddies in 1970 after years of enormous success. Conventional wisdom has always had it that Garfunkel grew to resent the fact that Simon wrote all the songs, while the songwriter grew more irritated by the fact that the golden-tonsilled Garfunkel could sing them better than he could (and ...
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