Word: duos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DARYL HALL, the blond keyboardist of Hall and Oates, momentarily broke loose in the summer of 1977 from the laid-back, blue-eyed soul image he had built with the duo, and surreptitiously recorded an album under the production of Robert Fripp, a well-known avant-garde musician. RCA, Hall's record company, refused to release the album because it feared that the record would shatter Hall's commercially successful, syrupy facade. So, capitalism stifled creative expression until the long-awaited recent release of the in-famous Hall-Fripp collaboration, Sacred Songs...
...more than croon sweet ballads. Fripp mainly provides a shelter for Hall from the influence of 1977 pop trends, and lets Hall experiment in an unrestrained environment. Familiar Hall and Oates themes still dominate the lyrics, but the music now stings with a vitality that the duo could never achieve. The change doesn't necessarily stem from the separation of Hall from Oates; more important is Hall's escape from the whole H&O production staff...
Last weekend's doubles also witnessed the varsity debut of Alex Sever and Paul Lennon, who joined forces Friday to defeat the Cornell number three duo, Jeff Charloff and Brad Lowenstein, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. Lennon and Horne defeated Army's number three pair, Hayne and Mark Sullivan...
That highscoring duo bagged one each in the first two minutes of the second half to finish off productive afternoons before coach Bob Scalise went to the bench and brought in the capable Crimson back...
...pair combined to eke out a tough first set decision before crushing the Bruin's duo for the second set and the Harvard triumph...