Zak Starkey reveals where he stands with The Who after dramatic firings: ‘Tempers flare’
NY Post
Won’t get fooled again.
Drummer Zak Starkey revealed where he stands with The Who after singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend fired him from the group last year.
“We’re still friends. We still talk all the time,” Starkey, 60, exclusively told The Post while promoting his upcoming one-man show at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on Feb. 20.
“But The Who has an addiction to friction, and tempers flare,” he continued. “I’m not the guy with a temper, really. I’m just a guy who won’t be walked all over, and I don’t think that I should be treated unfairly and not be able to speak up.”
Starkey, who is the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, was abruptly sacked by the “Baba O’Riley” rockers last April before being reinstated a few days later.
The following month, however, he was booted again — this time just weeks after Daltrey, 81, and Townshend, 80, announced their 18-date “The Song Is Over” farewell tour across the US and Canada. That tour concluded in October.
