Hall & Oates

Philadelphia soulboys Hall & Oates hit pay dirt in America with their 1977 Number 1 single Rich Girl (which David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz would later claim as the motivation behind his killing spree!).

The duo then embarked on a decade-long spell of chart domination, including the enormously successful (but nastily overproduced) I Can't go For That (No Can Do).

While the duo's early work had a naive charm, later successes (Maneater, Family Man et al) found Hall's soulful vocals saturated with a diabolical array of tepid electro-funk backing.