As a result, he found ways to rebel against his family name. He also had a fraught relationship with Starr, who admitted to often being absent. Starkey wanted to be a drummer in his own right.

Then he came to me one day and said he thought the group was just using him, for his name.

He just didn’t understand how newspapers work. “I told him that I didn’t ring up the papers, telling them to put my name in, but he seemed to think it was my fault. “He would be mentioned in a newspaper as ‘Zak Starr, son of Ringo Starr’ and he would get furious,” Starr said, per the book The Beatles: The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies. In his youth, though, he prickled against the constant comparisons and blamed Starr for them. These days, he appreciates comparisons to Starr, who he described as the greatest living drummer. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images Ringo Starr’s son didn’t like when people compared him to his father Surprisingly, all this proved was that Starkey was more like Starr than he might have thought. Zak Starkey had a tenuous relationship with his father and detested comparisons drawn between the two of them.

The offense? Playing a song by his father’s former band. Ringo Starr’s son was banned from his local pub after they committed what was, in his eyes, an unforgivable sin.

Like father like son song