Ringo Starr Takes Shot at 'Little Man' Roger Daltrey Over Son's Firing
The Beatles legend was apparently not pleased that the group sacked his son not once, but twice.
Zak Starkey isn’t the only one who has had enough of The Who. In a new Rolling Stone interview posted on Monday (June 16) the veteran session and touring drummer who was fired, rehired and then fired once more by The Who in a head-spinning span of several weeks earlier this year opened up about his current relationship with the band and how his dad feels about the tabloid tussle.
Asked what his father, former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, thought of the bizarre back-and-forth, Starkey said, “He [Ringo] said, ‘I’ve never liked the way that little man runs that band,'” in seeming reference to The Who singer Roger Daltrey.
After The Who “made a collective decision” to part ways with Starkey in April after his nearly 30 years behind the kit, guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend relented a few days later and rescinded the firing, saying Starkey was “not being asked” to step down from his position. Then, a month later, Townshend took it all back and said after many years working together “the time has come for a change.” A week later, Starkey claimed that he hadn’t been “fired” from the band, but had “‘retired’ to work [on] my own projects.”
It has all been a bit hard to keep up with, even for Starkey, who revealed to RS that even after all the firings and re-hirings he still has no idea where he stands. “I spoke to Roger last week,” Starkey told the magazine. “He said, ‘Don’t take your drums out of the warehouse, we might be calling you.’ What the f–k? These guys are f–kin’ insane! I’ve been fired more times than [late Who drummer] Keith Moon in ten days.”
Source: billboard.com/Gil Kaufman
