In my most recent interview with John Oates, he shared the story about what inspired he and Daryl Hall to name their seventh studio album “Along The Red Ledge” in 1978.
The story of making that album and the music on it will be detailed in The Vinyl Dialogues Volume II, which will be out later this year.
But the inspiration for the title had come to John a decade or so earlier, in a literature class at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Hall & Oates fans likely know that both artists went to Temple.
In fact, I just assumed most music fans in the greater Philadelphia area, and possibly the entire Northeast, were aware that the two met at Temple.
Certainly Temple University is well aware of two of its most famous students, right?
Well . . . sort of.
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