NEW YORK — The Who has parted ways with drummer Zak Starkey, whose father Ringo Starr famously kept time for the Beatles.

The split comes weeks after singer Roger Daltrey complained during a performance in London that he couldn’t sing over Starkey’s “boom, boom, boom,” according to the Guardian.

Daltrey reportedly took issue with Starkey’s work at a fundraiser at the Royal Albert Hall while the band was playing it’s 1971 tune “The Song Is Over.”

“To sing that song I do need to hear the key, and I can’t,” Daltrey reportedly told the crowd. “All I’ve got is drums going boom, boom, boom. I can’t sing to that. I’m sorry guys.”

A representative for The Who said the group reached “a collective decision” to cut ties with Starkey, whom they still admire and wish well.

The 59-year-old drummer reportedly joked on Instagram a few weeks after the Royal Albert Hall event that an “inside source” told him Daltrey “is bringing formal charges of overplaying and is literally going to Zak the drummer.”

The Who first recorded in 1964 with rock ‘n’ roll superstar Keith Moon on drums. Moon died in 1978 and was replaced by Kenney Jones. Starkey joined the British band in 1996.

His father, whose full name is Richard Starkey Jr., wasn’t with the Beatles when that band began, but played on all their albums. He’s credited with helping solidify the group’s core trio of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison while playing under the stage name Ringo Starr.

What’s next for Starkey and The Who — who has a pair of performances scheduled for July — is unclear. Daltrey has five solo shows booked in the U.K. next week.

Starkey has performed with English rockers Oasis, who reunited after more than a decade of squabbling to start touring again in July. They plan to play an Aug. 31 show at MetLife Stadium.

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