So many have paid to see What you think you're gettin' for free The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a jaguar Money's the matter If you're in it for love, you ain't gonna get too far She made me proud to have written ‘a classic’.She'll only come out at night The lean and hungry type Nothing is new, I've seen her here before Watching and waiting Ooh, she's sittin' with you but her eyes are on the door She made the song her own, but she kept the core of its essence. I hear Miley Cyrus sing ‘Maneater’ and I love what she did with it. I think of the young people who know our songs from TikTok or Spotify and never saw those awful videos we made and I’m glad the music survived. But it’s also amazing to see those moments reimagined and reinvented by kids today. “It can feel like we froze moments in time and the music can take us right back there. “Between us, we've clocked up so many stories and so many songs.” Oates pauses. “Bands always enjoy the story of how we caught a famous mugger – called ‘the Rusty Gun Bandit’ – in Australia in 1980.” The duo were reportedly confronted by the robber in a ski mask waving a sawn-off shotgun in a restaurant – an incident that ended with Oates putting the bandit through a glass door. There were no cell phones and people taking pictures of everything you did.” He tells me today he was "joking" about the number of sexual conquests, but "the humour didn't translate to print". He’s not referring to the recent claim on the celebrity gossip site Page Six that he slept with “thousands of women” in an interview in which he reportedly said: “If you didn’t live through the Seventies and Eighties, if you weren’t a rockstar during that time, there’s no way you can comprehend what it was like. It’s a bonding ritual that helps us all play better”. On the road with their band, Oates says they now “regale the other musicians with stories from decades in the business. They had just begun working on a new album when lockdown began, and Oates won’t tell me what ideas were bubbling up. In addition to solo projects, Hall & Oates have released several albums together since their heyday and retain “a brotherly relationship and a commitment to touring – we never wanted to be stars, just successful musicians”.
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