The “saga” of the group The Who, which has returned and rehired its drummer Zak Starkey several times in the past few weeks, has just taken a new turn. Starkey’s father, a certain Ringo Starr, would have come to the defense of his son and have treated the singer of the Who “little man”.
“I never liked the way this little man [Daltrey] Direct his group, “Ringo Starr said, said Zak Starkey, 59, in an interview with the magazine Rolling Stone.
Roger Daltrey, in 2018.
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In April, Starkey was sent for the first time of the Who, with whom he had been playing the battery since 1996. A disagreement concerning his performance would have been the source of this dismissal.
Bad tempo
In his interview with Rolling StoneStarkey said that it was rather the singer Roger Daltrey, 81, who was wrong in the tempo during the KHO concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
A video of the show shows DalTrey turning to his drummer with frustration during the song The Song is Over. Starkey had been dismissed two weeks later.
But three days later, he was reinstated in the group. Starkey had apologized to DalTrey on social networks, saying that he “missed some time”.
“I have no resentment”
Ten days after his return to the group, Starkey was however informed that this reintegration “would never work” and he had then encouraged him to say publicly that he had chosen to leave The Who.
The drummer had refused to make this statement. “I love the who and I would never have left the group,” he said. It would have mean that I would have abandoned all the people who supported me. ”
Saying that she was happy that his famous father defended, Starkey was asked by Rolling Stone If he held the who responsible for his dismissal.
“I have no grudge. It’s the Who. Takes have happened even more bizarre than that. I heard them say even more strange things. It is the Who – the craziest group that has ever existed. ”
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