Starkey replaced Chris Sharrock as the drummer in the Icicle Works in 1989, leaving the band the next year without appearing on any recordings with them. In 1985, Starkey played on John Entwistle's solo album The Rock (released in 1996). He joined the band when they moved from Nashville to Los Angeles and played in some shows and some recording sessions, but the band broke up less than a year after he joined. He briefly joined The Semantics, replacing founding drummer Jody Spence, during the recording process for their album Powerbill, which ended up being unreleased except in Japan. His daughter Tatia was born on 7 September 1985. In the early 1980s, Starkey appeared with a re-formed Spencer Davis Group. Career Spencer Davis, Eddie Hardin, John Entwistle and the Icicle Works After Moon's death, Jones gifted the teenage Starkey a white drum kit formerly owned by Moon, which had been kept in storage by the Who. By the age of twelve, Starkey was performing in pubs as a member of the garage band The Next. Starr's close friend, Kenney Jones, drummer for the Faces and Moon's replacement in the Who, stated that he 'virtually taught' the young Starkey to play the drums. Although Starr has praised his son's abilities, he had always regarded him as a future lawyer or doctor.

His father gave him only one lesson, but he discouraged his growing interest because of the desire not to see him in the same business. Starkey subsequently began teaching himself to play the drums. The drum kit was later sold at Sotheby's for £12,000. Although they never sat together at a drum kit, Moon discussed drumming with him as a boy. Moon (known to young Zak as 'Uncle Keith') was one of his father's closest friends and Starkey's godfather. Īt the age of eight, Starkey was given a drum kit by the Who's drummer, Keith Moon. He grew up at Sunny Heights at St George's Hill in Surrey and Tittenhurst Park at Sunninghill, Berkshire, and attended Highgate School in London until 1981.

Zak Richard Starkey was born on 13 September 1965, at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, London, to the Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) and Maureen Starkey, Starr's first wife. Starkey is son of the Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr. Other musicians and bands he has worked with include Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, the Icicle Works, the Waterboys, Bobby Womack, ASAP, the Lightning Seeds, John Entwistle, Sly & Robbie, Toots & The Maytals, Mykal Rose, Freddie McGregor, Big Youth, Jesse Royal, Tanya Stevens, Cecile and Sshh Liguz. In 2020, Starkey toured Brazil with U-Roy as a guitarist. He is also the third drummer to have appeared with the English rock band Oasis. Zak Richard Starkey (born 13 September 1965) is an English rock drummer who has performed and recorded with the English rock band the Who since 1996.

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