The Who: Wasn’t Zak Starkey thrown out?

Didn’t The WHO not fired your drummer Zak Starkey (59)? This suggests a text that the son of Beatles drummer Ringo STARR. He wrote a “great phone call” with The Who singer Roger Daltrey (81), wrote Starkey on Monday. Daltrey said that the band “didn’t fired him”. They are said to have only released their drummer so that he could work on his own projects.

Zak Starkey replied that he would publish a new single with his band Mantra of the Cosmos in early June. After that, he is available again The WHO. Daltrey only said “Oh”. They are said to have left the matter according to Starkey. “In good agreement and as good friends as we have always been,” he wrote. And added: “You just have to love these boys.” How much sarcasm is in the post cannot be answered.

A few days ago it sounded very different. “I was fired and asked two weeks after my re -hiring to submit an explanation in which I say that I canceled to devote myself to other musical activities,” Zac Starkey wrote on May 18, 2025, he did not give up the explanation because this would be a “lie”.

“I love The Who and would never leave it,” wrote the drummer. Then he meticulously listed all the side projects that he had had during his commitment to The WHO since 1996. So far, this would never have been a problem, he said.

Strongy reacted to one (80) from the same day. “After many years of great work on drums, ZAK has come for a change,” Townshend announced in it. “A moving moment. Zak tackled many new projects and I wish him all the best,” continued the guitarist – and at the same time presented Scott Devours (58) as a new drummer. He should sit behind the drums instead of Starkey on the upcoming farewell tour of The WHO in North America.

Just a month earlier, there had been a supposed dismissal of Starkkeys. The WHO announced that she had separated from her long -standing drummer after benefit concerts in the Royal Albert Hall. Pete Townshend rowed back three days later. “There were some communication problems, personally and privately on all sides that had to be clarified, and these were now successfully discussed,” he then announced on social media.