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PHILADELPHIA — Daryl Hall is suing John Oates. The pop and R&B duo formed in Philadelphia in 1970 has forged one of the most successful alliances in musical history. In their heyday — between 1974 and 1991 — the partners scored 29 Top 40 hits and six that reached number one. They’ve been inducted together into both the Songwriters and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and are generally considered the most commercially successful pop music duo of all time. But all is not well in Hall and Oates land. On Nov. 16, Hall filed a lawsuit against Oates in court in Nashville, Tennessee. Philadelphia Magazine re......

In a world of cookie-cutter pop music stars and automatons, Sinéad O'Connor was a one-off. The Irish singer-songwriter — whose death at the age of 56 was reported Wednesday by her family — was a singular artist who marched to the beat of her own, very idiosyncratic drummer. She not only courted controversy with her take-no-prisoners approach, she welcomed it. Or, as O'Connor said in a 2013 San Diego Union-Tribune interview: "I think artists can be inspiring, as long as we're courageous enough to be ourselves and to be bullied, but not run away." This Dublin native could have taught master clas......