For fifty years, Daryl Hall and John Oates worked together in a career for the ages. They churned out plenty of hits, including “Out of Touch” and “Kiss On My List,” and managed to remain close friends throughout – a relative rarity.
When asked how they were able to stay professional together for so long in a 1983 interview, Oates replied that they knew they had creative differences and still had to work hard to get past them. Their friendship has paid off in a big way, being the third best-selling musical duo of all time. They’ve sold more than forty million albums globally.
Hall & Oates Today
This outstanding musical duo made it into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2016, they earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a year later, they announced they would be touring the United States for almost the entire summer.
Of all things, John Oates has related that neither of them has ever liked being called “Hall & Oates,” saying it's not anything they've ever wanted or liked. On all of their albums, they're credited as "Daryl Hall and John Oates". The duo embarked on their very first Latin American tour in 2019 and later performed in Spain for the first time.
Jared Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars
With piercing blue eyes and a charming persona, Leto was destined for musical stardom. His band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, has sold millions of albums worldwide and has won a healthy number of awards.
Leto went on record about wanting to create music that had cohesiveness and a kind of atmospheric musical story to it. Leto also directed all of the band's music videos, including “The Kill,” “Kings and Queens,” and “Up in the Air.” It wasn't the only entertainment venture where Leto would make a name for himself.
Jared Leto Today
Leto has turned into a classic Hollywood triple threat. Thanks to his role in “Dallas Buyers Club,” he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for best supporting actor. He's been in “Fight Club” and famously dripped a mess out of his bright green trousers as The Joker in “Suicide Squad.”
He's a method actor and researches his roles down to the finest details. He stays completely in character during the shooting process, which must be great for everybody else that works on the films. Or not.
Dave Grohl of Nirvana and The Foo Fighters
He has one of the most impressive rock resumes in history, and he's been instrumental in the development of three important bands. He got his start with the band Nirvana, which set the stage for the grunge genre early in the nineties.
After Nirvana came apart, he went on to form his own band, the Foo Fighters, which are classic examples of new rock, with ten studio albums to their names. Grohl has also been heavily involved with The Queens of the Stone Age, another famous rock band, and he shows no signs of stopping.