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Bands in the (very) late phase of your career can also have problems with your line -up. The most recent example: The Who.
Over 60 years after the London Mod Legend was founded, singer Roger Daltrey grumbles that working with Drummer Zak Starkey has now ended. Starkery was sitting behind the “my-generation” shooting booth for the newly formed band since 1996.
Particularly spicy: Zak Starkey, 59, is the son of the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
London daily newspapers report that the tensions around the charity concerts for the “Teenage Cancer Trust” have escalated in the Royal Albert Hall. At the two shows at the end of March, numerous acting vips with short deposits also performed. Among them Bill Murray, Sadie Frost, Paul McKenna and Tracy-Ann Oberman. Pete Townshend, Roger Daltery and Co performed a kind of greatest hits revue.
Peace, joy, pancakes?
A spokesman for the band told the “Mirror” that The WHO “made the collective decision to part with ZAK”. You estimate his achievements and wish him only the very best for his future.
Another source does not want to know anything about peace, joy, pancakes. The separation would have been “bitter to say the least”. There would have been repeated problems with the timing. According to Daltrey’s taste, drummer Starkey would have “overplayed”. And: “The standard was not as high as wanted.”
“I can’t sing that. Sorry, people!”
According to observers, Daltrey had complained on an open stage: “To sing this song, I have to hear the key, and I can’t. All I have is this drum that makes you boom, boom, boom. I can’t sing that. Sorry, people!”
There is neither the WHO nor from Starkey itself.
Nevertheless, Starkey makes word jokes in a posting joke about the abrasions of the Albert Hall shows. He heard from an “insider source” that one would have been dissatisfied with “the drummer Zak”. He mixes his first name Zak with the English word “sack”, i.e. firing.
A resilient background, apart from the insensitive trolley at the charity show, could be the declining “standard” of his rhythm work. Starkey probably suffers from problems with the blood circulation, which recently got worse.
In January, he had to cancel a appearance of his private supergroup mantra of the Cosmos at the last minute after a blood clot was diagnosed in his right leg. A doctor gave him blood thinner and prescribed a break. Until further notice.