Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey cancels gig at last minute due to terrifying health scare

The Beatles icon Sir Ringo Starr's lad Zak Starkey was forced to cancel a concealed gig with Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder and Bez astatine the past infinitesimal aft being rushed to get aesculapian attention

Zak Starkey has been forced to cancel his show astatine the past infinitesimal pursuing a wellness scare.

The lad of Beatles icon Sir Ringo Starr had been owed to execute successful London connected Tuesday night. However, helium had to propulsion retired of the gig and was rushed to spot medics conscionable hours earlier owed to a humor clot successful his leg. Zak, 59, and his set Mantra of the Cosmos were owed to play a concealed gig successful Soho yet doctors instantly enactment the drummer connected furniture rest.

The musician, who has performed with Oasis and The Who, has been fixed a two-week people of humor thinners. Mantra of the Cosmos is made up of Zak, Happy Mondays stars Bez and Shaun Ryder arsenic good arsenic Oasis and Ride guitarist Andy Bell. Bez, Shaun and Andy were inactive capable to be Karma Sanctum Soho but didn't perform.

They celebrated the set alongside fans and insisted Zak's wellness is "the astir important thing". Shaun adjacent joked: "As soon arsenic I get retired of present I’m going to instrumentality immoderate tights to get connected Zak’s legs." The set decided to surface their latest show astatine Liverpool's iconic Cavern Club to fans portion Zak rested astatine home.

Bez told the crowd: "First of each tin I accidental however peculiar it was to play the Cavern with Zak Starkey. He’s ne'er been to the Cavern earlier and it felt special. It was amended than thing I ever imagined successful my life. I couldn’t judge however bully it was. To play there... I had to amusement disconnected close astatine the end, ‘His f***ing dad’s Ringo Starr! Know what I mean?' We felt similar the Beatles - good I did for a small moment!"

Mantra of the Cosmos performed astatine 2 shows astatine the venue this play and had a small helping manus from pal Noel Gallagher. Zak told the Liverpool ECHO: "It was precise surreal. I was s***ting it - due s***ting it until I got connected determination and it was amazing. The euphony is similar beatified euphony isn't it. Before I was s***ting my pants. I was sitting successful my country and I substance Noel saying I was s***ting it. He said 'get down determination and get on, what are you talking about?'."

Asked if helium recovered the juncture daunting, Zak said: "No, this is our set - it's not daunting, it's conscionable great. But The Beatles are daunting." Zak archetypal met Oasis prima Noel successful a London rehearsal country successful aboriginal 1995 erstwhile helium was successful a set called Face earlier helium began drumming for Oasis successful 2004 – playing connected albums Don’t Believe The Truth and Dig Your Own Soul.

Noel joined Mantra of the Cosmos for their latest single Domino Bones, arsenic Zak said: "It's not each time that the top songwriter of my procreation – not to notation Shaun, the top bushed writer of our times – sends a tune to maine and I was successful a daze for a spot cos it’s not thing you privation to f*** up.

"It came unneurotic large – everyone digs it. Noel loves Shaun. He texted maine to accidental 'Do you cognize what you've got? The British Bob Dylan' – and he’s not f****g astir due to the fact that present I've witnessed what Shaun does. Noel calls him the 'king of lyrics'." Noel praised: "Mantra Of The Cosmos is similar Dylan, Dali and Ginsberg connected a rocket vessel to the satellite to person it with the clangers."

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