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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Daryl Hall, Part 1 | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6731 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Billy Corgan joins Daryl Hall at home for Part 1 of an expansive conversation on the craft of collaboration, the roots that shaped him, and the long road to “Sara Smile.” Daryl retraces his path from doo-wop street corners and Philly R&B to early sessions with Gamble & Huff and Thom Bell, the Atlantic years with the legendary Ahmet Ertegun and Arif Mardin, a left-turn album with Todd Rundgren, and the creative pivot that set the stage for Hall & Oates’ breakout at RCA. Along the way, he shares candid thoughts on resisting labels, finding joy in collaboration, and what it means to move seamlessly between genres. Subscribe to the Magnificent Others YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BillyCorganTMO?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's an effortlessness about it. Yeah, yeah, I did. That's always been. I never tried too hard. You don't really have that. You sort of just ignore all of it. I didn't. Philly was very resistant to all that stuff. You know, they didn't even like the Beatles in Philadelphia. Darrell, thank you so much for being on my podcast.

0:21.4

It's a great honor.

0:22.4

We're here in your beautiful home.

0:24.4

Undescribed, undisclosed.

0:26.9

In wrestling, we say parts unknown.

0:28.8

Yeah.

0:29.3

So we're part.

0:30.0

Unfortunately, it's easy to find where anybody lives these days.

0:33.0

That's true.

0:33.7

That's true.

0:34.2

I've had my battles with Google asking them to remove my name off of searches. Good luck. I want to start with your latest album, which is the D album. Work with Dave Stewart of Eurythmic's fame. I know Dave a little bit. I was sort of interested because of your long history of working with different people.

0:56.7

Do you like working with a partner?

0:58.6

Is that something you sort of welcome?

1:01.2

It's kind of obvious that I, with it.

1:04.1

Yeah, but I'm saying is, based on working with a partner.

1:06.4

Yeah, but I'm asking for your, because I didn't find a lot of information, like, let's call it from a psychological point of view, why you like working with a partner. The truth is, I love collaboration. That's my thing. I don't know why. I mean, I'm perfectly capable, and I do it all the time of writing songs on my own. That's not the issue at all. But I like that interaction thing. I like what happens when you put two different people, usually two different people.

1:30.9

I don't interaction thing. I like what happens when you put two different people,

1:29.5

usually two different people. I don't like it when it gets too many more people than that.

1:34.7

Too many cooks in the kitchen. Yeah, too many cooks. But how that, what happens when,

1:40.5

when that chemistry comes together? And I really enjoy that.

1:45.0

I mean, that's what the LFDH, you know, Laff and Daryl's House show is based on, is that kind of thing.

1:51.8

That's what made me, one of the reasons that made me do it.

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