The music goes on.
After Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, complained about Zak Starkey’s drumming DURING their Royal Albert Hall performance, it was announced that the band had ‘parted ways’ with their drummer, who has played with the band for almost 3 decades.
Starkey, who is the son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, said he was “surprised and saddened” by the news and that the band had felt “like family.”
A few days later, guitarist Pete Townshend wrote on the band’s social media page that the fallout had been due to “communication issues”.
“He’s not being asked to step down from The Who,” Townshend wrote. “There have been some communication issues, personal and private on all sides, that needed to be dealt with, and these have been aired happily.”
However, “Roger and I would like Zak to tighten up his latest evolved drumming style to accommodate our non-orchestral line up and he has readily agreed,” he said.
The statement continued: “We are a family, this blew up very quickly and got too much oxygen. It’s over. We move forward now with optimism and fire in our bellies.
