We reserve the right to pop up again,” says Townshend wryly, by phone from his London home, “but I think one thing is very ...

Bands are firing drummers, and trading drummers, and rehiring back the drummers they just fired last week. It's a full-blown crisis behind the kit. How did it happen?

Pity the poor session player, whose lot is to provide music with all the guts for none of the glory. The fallout from drummer Zak Starkey’s sacking by the Who rumbles on, with the band’s iconic ...