Daryl Hall's Bold Risk: Sacred Songs

0:00It's May 1st. Welcome in. This is Music News Today, where music meets AI. I'm Cory with the story. Back in 1977, Daryl Hall from Hall and Oats dropped his first solo album, Sacred Songs, with heavy input from King Crimson's Robert. Fripp on production and guitar. The label, RCA, freaked out over its experimental vibe and tried to bury it completely, stalling the release for three years. Fripp was living in New York at the time, and he and Hall had neutral respect going back to 1974. What started conventional, quickly turned edgy, with Fripp's wild for patronics and rocket solos pushing Hall's blue-eyed soul into uncharted rock. Territory. RCA worried it would tank Hall's pop a sin, especially since Hall and Oats were hitting gold records left and right. Hall himself said Fripp's playing sounded like the universe crying, far from their sleek, filly sound. Fripp saw sacred songs as the kickoff to his middle of the road trilogy, followed by Peter Gabriel's second album in his own exposure.

1:02He believed it could have put Hall up there, with Bowie and Eno right away. After relentless lobbying, it finally hit shelves in 1980, and decades later, that bold risk still sounds fresh as ever, proving Hall's. Ambition paid off big time.