Overview

• Starkey posted on Instagram May 26 that a phone call with Roger Daltrey clarified he was ‘retired’ rather than dismissed after nearly 30 years with The Who.
• Pete Townshend announced on May 18 that the time had come for a change behind the drum kit and wished Starkey well in his other projects.
• Scott Devours, a veteran of Daltrey’s solo band, will serve as drummer for The Who’s farewell North American tour beginning August 2025.
• Starkey spent roughly eight weeks at his Jamaican studio completing work with Mantra of the Cosmos ahead of a single release in June.
• The drummer expressed disappointment at being excluded from Oasis’s 2025 reunion shows and said he contacted Liam and Noel Gallagher to ask why he wasn’t invited.