In a surprise decision, just a few days after the WHO announced that it had separated from Zak Starkey – Ringo Starr’s son and the group’s drummer for almost 30 years – the group’s Townshend group announced that it was not fire.
“News Flash! Who Back Zak!” Wrote Townshend in two items on his official Instagram account on Saturday, which is comically entitled “Yaggerdang”. “Zak is not invited to withdraw from the WHO. There have been communication problems, personal and private on all sides, which were to be treated, and these were happily disseminated.”
He then underlined the full declaration on the group’s website, which continues:
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“Roger and I would like Zak to tighten his latest evolved battery style to accommodate our non -orchestral range and he easily agreed. I take responsibility for some of the confusion. Our TCT shows at the Royal Albert Hall were a bit delicate for me.
“Perhaps we did not take enough time in sound checks, giving us problems on stage. The sound in the center of the stage is always the most difficult to work. Roger did nothing wrong, but to play with his in-ear monitors. Zak made some mistakes and apologized. Although with a rubber duck drummer. (Note: Townshend’s meaning here is not clear and probably an inner joke.) We are a family, it exploded very quickly and had too much oxygen. It’s over. We are now moving forward with optimism and fire in our belly.
“As for Roger, fans can enjoy his next solo shows with his fabulous drummer, Scott Devours, who, according to him, could replace Zak in the WHO and has always supported the group.
“I owe Scott excuses not to crush this rumor before it spreads. He was injured by that. I promise to buy him a very long drink and give him a hug. ”
The declaration is signed “Pete Townshend April 19, 2025.”
A source said Variety Starkey would have returned to the group on Thursday, but had no additional information.
The group announced on Wednesday in a statement that he separated from Starkey after the disputes on his game during the group’s concert last month at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which was an advantage for the Trust Cancer Teenage.
“The group made a collective decision to separate from Zak after this series of shows at the Royal Albert Hall,” said a representative of the group in a statement to the Guardian. “They have only admiration for him and wish him the best for his future.”
In a declaration at Variety, Starkey said: “I am very proud of my thirties with Who. Filling my godfather’s shoes,” Uncle Keith “was the greatest honor and I remain their biggest fan,” he said, referring to the original who drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978 and was a close friend of the father of Zak and a mentor of the young starkey. “They were like family for me. In January, I underwent a serious medical emergency with blood clots in my low battery calf. This is now completely healed and does not affect my drum or my race. After playing these songs with the group for so many decades, I am surprised and saddened anyone who would have a problem with my performance that evening, but what can you do?
“I plan to take much necessary leave with my family and to focus on the release of ‘Domino Bones’ by Mantra du Cosmos with Noel Gallagher in May and ending my autobiography written only by me,” he concluded. “29 years old at any job is a good old race, and I wish them the best.”
According to a journal from the Royal Albert Hall Show published in the British metro, Daltrey, 81, took a break from the group’s last song, “The Song is over”, saying: “To sing this song, I need to hear the key, and I can’t. Everything I have is drums, boom, boom. I can’t sing.
WHO has been a sadly frantic group of their entire career, with frequent arguments between members who have even sometimes led to fights. In fact, the name of the LED Zeppelin group was suggested for the first time by Moon after he and the original bass player John Entwistle planned to leave the group in 1966 and to regroup with the guitarists Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck – then with the Yardbirds – and the singer Steve Marriott. However, the manager of small faces, the Marriott group at the time, would have made threatening noises about the move and everyone returned to his previous bands, although Beck left the Yardbirds shortly after. (Page, however, clearly kept the name in mind.)
The group almost separated again after the death of Moon in 1978, but brought together the former drummer of small faces Kenney Jones; He and Dalley argued and the group announced his split in 1982 and did a lucrative farewell tour, but brought together (without Jones) seven years later and continued since, on tour or by playing isolated concerts each year or two. Entwistle died in 2002, but many fans believe that as long as Townshend and Daltrey are present, it is always the one.
Starkey, 59, had hinted at his imminent eviction in an Instagram post filled with Camas last last weekend, in which he used his first name in place of the verb “Sack”, British slang for having been dismissed. In a legend, a photo of himself with DalTrey, he wrote in All-Caps: “Heard today from the source inside in the nose of the horses from which Toger Daktrey directed the singer and principal-songwriter of the unhappy group of the performance of the drummer of Zak and the Burwash of the Baille and the Bauvil of Burwash and the Burwash of the Burwash and the Burwash and the Burwash Burwash of the Bailwash and the Burwash of Zak and Sickle Glee Club Harmony without Empathy Allstars’ This was confirmed by the long -standing manager Wilyya Youwontyouknow.
Given the history of the group and the advanced age – Daltrey is 81 years old and Townshend will be 80 years next month – it remains to be seen how more the group will tour, but Daltrey is currently on a solo tour, and no musician shows signs of slowdown in the immediate future.
Townshend said Variety Last December, “I know that if Roger and I were turning again, as I am sure that we will do it, it will probably be one of the last periods we are turning. I would love to make another album with Roger. I really enjoyed doing the last, but he doesn’t really want to do it,” he said, referring since 1982.
“I have the impression with the Who, I always try to push this elephant on the hill, Roger being resistant to do a new creative job,” he concluded. “He always says to me,” Pete, you did enough. We did it enough at first. This is what people want here. Let’s do that.
