It looks like the song is over — again — for Zak Starkey and the Who. A month after the venerable English rock band dismissed Starkey as drummer and then quickly rehired him, lead guitarist ...

British rock band The Who’s task of replacing their iconic first drummer Keith Moon is still causing headaches, five decades after Moon’s death. The group’s guitarist Pete Townshend ...

At the time, he called the group a “family”; indeed, Starkey considered original Who drummer Keith Moon his “mentor, babysitter, and kind of uncle” (as he described the music legend in a ...

English drummer Zak Starkey has been let go from The Who for a second time after being fired and then quickly reinstated last month. In an Instagram post shared on Sunday, May 18, 2025, the rock ...

It appears this split is permanent. The band’s original drummer, Keith Moon, who bought Starkey his first drum kit, died in 1978. His replacement, Kenney Jones, played with the band until 1988.

With frontman Roger Daltrey belting out Townshend’s imaginative and emotionally vulnerable lyrics over the thunderous rhythm section of drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle, the Who ...

Bass guitarist John Entwhistle died in 2002, while drummer Keith Moon, who was Starkey’s godfather, died in 1978. Since then, Starkey has “pretty much become the ‘unofficial’ official ...

The legend of the name goes back to when guitarist Jimmy Page pitched a new supergroup to Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who. Page suggested that the two join forces with Robert Plant ...