Over the course of his career, John Oates has released 18 studio albums as one half of the soulful pop-rock titans Hall & Oates, and today he’ll bring his seventh solo album, Oates , into the universe. He has so many No. 1 songs with Daryl Hall , in fact, that it takes him a few moments to remember them all. (Surprisingly, “ You Make My Dreams ” never ascended to the top.) And don’t even get us started on his Hall of Fame–worthy mustache. So what were some of the milestones that Oates experienced along the way? Let’s find out — we can definitely go for that, especially since there’s no more lawsuit .

First album you bought

It was Ray Charles’s Greatest Hits . It was probably the early ’60s. I started buying singles way before I bought an album. I lived in a smal

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