Daryl Hall and John Oates Look Back on Playing With Mick Jagger at Live Aid: ‘It Was Shocking, To Be Honest’

Reside Support boasted plethora of contributors who might be regarded as MVPs – in particular organizer and motive force Bob Geldof. However for a primetime bite in Philadelphia on June 13, 1985, Daryl Corridor & John Oates held that difference.

The 2 — who met within the Town of Brotherly Love in 1967 and started operating in combination 3 years upcoming — rolled on degree at about 9:50 p.m. at John F. Kennedy Stadium, forming with their Billboard Sizzling 100 toppers “Out of Touch” and “Maneater.” Additionally they introduced out former Temptations participants Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin to recreate a part of their then-recent Apollo Theater medley of the gang’s “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” “The Way You Do the Things You Do” and “My Girl” — whole with one of the vital Motown staff’s trademark dance steps.

However wait, there was once extra. The augmented Corridor & Oates staff stayed on degree to again up Mick Jagger, appearing sans Rolling Stones, on his solo tracks “Lonely at the Top” and “Just Another Night” in addition to the Stones’ “Miss You.” Upcoming a high-heeled Tina Turner joined the court cases, taking Michael Jackson’s playground on “State of Shock” (a Jagger duet from the Jacksons’ Victory brochure) and a show-stealing “It’s Most effective Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It),” during which Jagger, who’d modified outfits mid-song, memorably ripped off Turner’s leather-based mini-skirt.

“I felt the significance of it, that’s the best way to put it,” Corridor lately advised Billboard. “It was one of those moments where we knew something significant was happening.”

“At the time we were at the top of our game in the world of pop,” says Oates, talking one after the other to Billboard. “And it was Philadelphia, so it made sense for us to be there. The vibe was great and the energy was just insane. It was something I’ll never forget.”

Neither Corridor nor Oates consider particularly how their Reside Support reserving happened; each say it got here in the course of the duo’s then-manager Tommy Mottola. And since that they had carried out with Ruffin and Kendricks on the Apollo not up to two months earlier than (the Reside on the Apollo brochure got here out September 1985), it appeared suitable to have them be a part of Reside Support as neatly.

Backing Jagger got here rather all of the sudden, then again. “Mick had done a solo album (She’s the Boss) at the time and didn’t really have a backing band,” Oates remembers. Corridor & Oates’ guitarist G.E. Smith had performed guitar on probably the most brochure’s tracks, “Secrets,” which helped tied the 2 acts. “This really wasn’t initiated by me at all,” Corridor says. “I was just a soldier in the army and other people were saying, ‘Mick wants to do this. You’re gonna do this with him and Tina’s involved and you guys bring out David and Eddie…’ It was all sort of planned out, and I just said, ‘Sure, sure, sure.’”

Rehearsals with Jagger at SIR Studios in Big apple have been as memorable because the reveal itself for Oates. “We had prepared the songs and gone over them and had them pretty well down ‘cause, of course, our ‘80s band was so frickin’ good,” Oates recollects. “We were on stage playing, doing whatever we were doing, and Mick comes into the room and basically jumps on stage, just a ‘you guys ready?’ kind of thing and he said ‘Let’s go!’ and called out a song. We counted it off and he went into the song as if he was playing a giant stadium. He did the whole thing — the chicken wings, prancing around the front of the stage, full-on. It wasn’t like we were in a rehearsal studios just playing the songs; he actual performed it, treated it like it was a full-out performance in front of no one except us. It was shocking, to be honest with you, but it was so frickin’ exciting.”

Corridor provides that Jagger was once “nervous” concerning the efficiency, which was once his maximum high-profile clear of the Stones at that time. “He asked me afterwards, ‘How did we do? How did I do?’ It was that kind of thing,” Corridor says. “That was interesting, ’cause I see these things from the inside pretty much. Once we got on stage we were just a machine.”

Each Corridor & Oates have fond reminiscences of the grasp on the stadium that past. “Considering what we were there for, which was starving people in Africa, it was a joyous event,” Corridor says. “I would just keep bumping into people and meeting people. Everybody was smiling and shaking hands. It was a really friendly event considering it was the top of the world’s artists at the time. And ’cause we were at the end of the show I got to see everybody as they were performing, one after the other after the other. It was really the ultimate experience to watch as well as participate in.”

Oates had additionally arrived early within the past to soak within the order and loved the camaraderie behind the scenes. “Everyone who was done in their trailer, dressing room or wasn’t performing was basically just hanging around. Everybody was nice and pumped. Jack Nicholson, who was a buddy, was there emceeing. It was cool to be in a casual environment, with people all around.”

Oates doesn’t consider a lot concerning the evening’s shambolic “We Are the World” finale. “I probably blew out my energy during our set and just kind of went through the motions for the encore,” he says. Corridor remembers that “everybody was rushing the stage, trying to get in front so people would notice them. (Laughs) I’m not saying that in a bad way; everybody was just kind of feeling good and doing it. It was a lot of adrenaline and energy flying around.”

Promoter Larry Magid, whose Philadelphia-based Electrical Manufacturing facility Concert events company produced the U.S. reveal along with the overdue Invoice Graham, says it was once some degree of private satisfaction to have local acts corresponding to Corridor & Oates at the invoice. “It just worked out to have those acts on,” he recollects. “Hall & Oates with Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin; both of them were living in Philadelphia at the time. I liked that. I liked Patti LaBelle being from Philadelphia. The Teddy Pendergrass thing [his first performance since a 1982 car crash left him paralyzed from the chest down] was overwhelming, very emotional. And the opening act, the Hooters, was a hot new act from Philadelphia at the time and I was so happy we were able to showcase them.”

Corridor recognizes that having the Stateside portion of Reside Support in Philadelphia (a coincident concert took playground in London) did create it extra resonant. “I felt a little bit of pride in that,” Corridor says. “I was glad Philadelphia was the place.”

Corridor & Oates, in fact, officially ceased operating in combination in 2024 next 18 studio albums and 16 manage 10 singles at the Billboard Sizzling 100. Corridor continues to be traveling at the heels of his 2024 solo brochure, D, month Oates is at the highway and can shed his unutilized brochure, Oates, on Aug. 29.