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John Hall is a musican who founded the band Orleans.

Hall founded Orleans in January 1972 in Ulster County, New York with Wells Kelly and Larry Hoppen. The band took their name "Orleans" because they needed a name for the band at a show and didn't know what else to use. The name has nothing to do with New Orleans. Lance Hoppen, Larry's brother, joined the band later in that year.

In 1977, Hall left to begin a solo career and became active in the anti-nuclear movement, co-founding Musicians United for Safe Energy.

In late October 2004, when John Hall publicly commented that the Bush presidential campaign never received permission to use the Orleans song "Still The One" at campaign events. The campaign responded by dropping the song from their playlist.

John Hall is currently (as of March 2006) running a primary race as a Democrat for U.S. House of Representatives in the 19th District of New York.

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