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Four months after the shows that prompted Zak Starkey's departure from The Who, Roger Daltrey has tried to set the record straight. Starkey and The Who have been in and out of the spotlight since April following the back-and-forth that Starkey had been Fired from the group, only to be welcomed back ahead of him Final departure – which Starkey clarified Was not him being "fired," but rather "retired." Initially, a spokesman for The Who had claimed that "the band made a collective decision to part ways with Zak after this round of shows at the Royal Albert Hall," referring to a pair of gigs the month prior. Addressing the gigs in an interview in June, Starkey detailed his version of what had happened at the shows in question. "What happened was I got it right and Roger got it wrong," he told The Telegraph . According to a report from The Who's Royal Albert Hall performance...

Black cool is one of America’s great innovations, right up there with basketball, blue jeans, and the internet. It blends several forms—music, sports, fashion, speech, ways of cutting through space—into a wholly distinctive, globally influential aesthetic. There are French fashion houses in thrall to silhouettes first spotted in Harlem, Japanese men who have devoted their lives to spinning jazz records in Shibuya, and lavish murals of Tupac Shakur. as far apart as Sydney and Sierra Leone . Sean Combs, the disgraced record mogul, certainly did not invent Black cool. But like Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan before him—and like Jay-Z, Kanye West, and many others who followed— for a flicker of time he was its most formidable ambassador. That moment coincided with my adolescence, which is why the revelation of Combs's extravagant cruelties —the depravity with which he used all that he’d gained—has left my childhood friends and me feeling so betrayed. We ...