The drummer confirmed they are “on good terms and great friends as we have always been”
Zak Starkey
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Zak Starkey clarified that he was apparently not “fired” from the Who, but rather “retired.” The drummer took to Instagram on Monday night to detail a phone call he had with Roger Daltrey about his much-discussed departure from the band.
“I had a great phone chat with Roger at the end of last week which truly confused both of us!!!” Starkey wrote. “Rog said I hadn’t been ‘fired’…I had been ‘retired’ to work [on] my own projects. I explained to Rog that I have just spent nearly eight weeks at my studio in Jamaica completing these projects, that my group Mantra of the Cosmos was releasing one single at the beginning of June and after that had run its course ( usually 5/6 weeks ) I was completely available for the foreseeable future….Rog said ‘Oh!’ and we kind of left it there- On good terms and great friends as we have always been.”
He added, “Gotta love these guys. As my mum used to say ‘The mind boggles!!!’”
Earlier this month, ahead of the Who’s farewell tour, Pete Townshend announced that the band had parted ways with Starkey, their current drummer. “After many years of great work on drums from Zak the time has come for a change,” the guitarist wrote today on
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