Oasis to roll with Ringo's son

LONDON, UK (Oasis Fans Website) - London - British retro rockers Oasis have never hidden their love for the Beatles, with one member even naming his son after John Lennon. Now they have taken the hero worship to a new level - bringing in a second-generation Beatle.

Zak Starkey, the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, is to perform the same function for Oasis, the Times newspaper said in its Tuesday edition.
Singer Noel Gallagher has played drums on the band's new album following the removal of Alan White after seven years. First drummer Tony McCarroll was fired and secured a $1.5 million out-of-court settlement.

Starkey will make his debut in front of more than 100,000 fans when Oasis play the famous Glastonbury music and arts festival in southwest England next month, the paper said.
The group will also be sharing the bill with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. "Zak's first gig will be to 150,000 people. He's rehearsing all the Oasis songs now," Oasis guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher was quoted as saying.

Oasis first found fame in the mid-1990s and sold millions of albums with a defiantly old-fashioned sound which at times owed so much to earlier groups that some critics dismissed it as a pastiche.
The band have never hidden their love for the Beatles, with singer Liam Gallagher - Noel's brother - naming his son Lennon.
Starkey, 38, is renowned as a more accomplished drummer than his at times rudimentary father and has played with a series of bands, recently for re-formed British group The Who.