INTERVIEW: Known for powering the beats behind Oasis and Johnny Marr, the drumming dynamo and son of Ringo Starr is hitting a new groove. As he tells Mark Beaumont, he’s thriving in cosmic supergroup ...

When Starkey formed Mantra of the Cosmos in 2022, he took the moniker from a mantra that he, Bell and Oasis guitarist Gem Archer had been given during a meditation session in Los Angeles.

INTERVIEW: Known for powering the beats behind Oasis and Johnny Marr, the drumming dynamo and son of Ringo Starr is hitting a new groove. As he tells Mark Beaumont, he’s thriving in cosmic supergroup ...

At the age of 14 or 15, Zak Starkey disowned The Beatles. “It’s like a wall,” he says in a very mod-like mutter that would have no one guessing he was the son of Ringo Starr. “Can’t get over it. Can’t ...

“I’m now the most famous drummer on welfare,” jokes Zak Starkey, and few music fans who follow the news at all will have any trouble knowing what he’s talking about. Few musicians have ...

R ecently, the son of Ringo Starr, Zak Starkey, found himself out of a job when The Who ousted him from the band. But, The Who is not the only mega-famous band that Starkey has be ...

Starkey does have other irons in the fire, although perhaps not as many as indicated by the Who when they were giving reasons for letting him go. On this particular day, he is Zooming with Variety to ...

Well, they made it to at least one show. Oasis took the stage together tonight for the first time in nearly 16 years, performing at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, making this July 4 arguably an even ...

It’s been a tumultuous time for Zak Starkey, whose firing, re-hiring, and subsequent re-firing from the Who has been causing quite a stir in elder rock circles. The drummer and son of Ringo ...

Zak Starkey, the son of none other than The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, was fired from British rock band The Who (Pete Townshend). Then he was rehired.