{"id":45003,"date":"2025-08-04T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45003\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:53:08","slug":"the-whos-roger-daltrey-calls-zak-starkey-comments-upsetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45003\/","title":{"rendered":"The Who’s Roger Daltrey Calls Zak Starkey Comments ‘Upsetting’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Who<\/a>\u2019s Roger Daltrey<\/a> said the comments Zak Starkey<\/a> made about him following his<\/a> tumultuous ouster<\/a> from the band were \u201cincredibly upsetting.\u201d The singer also offered a slightly new version of the events that led to the drummer\u2019s exit<\/a> in a recent interview with The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tStarkey (who is Ringo Starr\u2019s son) spent nearly 30 years drumming for the Who, up until this spring when he was fired<\/a>, re-hired<\/a>, then fired for good<\/a>. The turmoil dates back to a somewhat sloppy performance at a charity show at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall in March.<\/p>\n

\n\tDaltrey has accused Starkey of playing too loudly and making mistakes. Meanwhile, Starkey has claimed it was Daltrey who made the mistakes, like supposedly missing his intro on a performance of \u201cThe Song Is Over.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNeither side of the fight has held back in the press since then. For instance, Starkey told Rolling Stone<\/a> that Daltrey \u201cjust got lost,\u201d while in an interview with The Telegraph, he said, \u201cWhat happened was I got it right and Roger got it wrong.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tResponding to Starkey in The Times, Daltrey said, \u201cIt was kind of a character assassination and it was incredibly upsetting.\u201d He added that Starkey\u2019s response to everything \u201cwas crippling to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Daltrey, the main issue at the Royal Albert Hall show was actually a technical one. During live shows, the Who use electronic drums so Daltrey can hear them in his in-ear monitors, with Daltrey explaining: \u201cIt is controlled by a guy on the side, and we had so much sub-bass on the sound of the drums that I couldn\u2019t pitch. I was pointing to the bass drum and screaming at him because it was like flying a plane without seeing the horizon. So when Zak thought I was having a go at him, I wasn\u2019t. That\u2019s all that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe added of public perception of the \u201cThe Song Is Over\u201d incident, which was captured on video and shared widely online, \u201cAn audience can see what\u2019s happening on stage and have a complete misunderstanding of what\u2019s actually going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut while a mishap over sound levels might seem like something all parties would be able to address and overcome, Daltrey remained firm in the Who\u2019s decision to ultimately out Starkey. \u201cPete [Townshend] and I retain the right to be the Who,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone else is a session player. You can\u2019t replace [original drummer] Keith Moon. We wanted to branch out and that\u2019s all I want to say about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Who\u2019s Roger Daltrey said the comments Zak Starkey made about him following his tumultuous ouster from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,30333,12444,19463],"class_list":{"0":"post-45003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-roger-daltrey","13":"tag-the-who","14":"tag-zak-starkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}