Jason Starkey

Jason Starkey was born on August 19, 1967 in London, England to Richard and Maureen Starr during the "Summer of Love" in 1967. His parents divorced when he was 7 years old, his mother, Maureen, had custody of Jay, his older brother Zak and younger sister Lee with Richie having visitation rights. In the mid 1980`s he was with Buddy Curtis and the Grasshoppers. He was then part of the band "The People`s Friend". However Jason mostly stayed out of the public eye- however he was arrested for drug possession twice and stealing a car radio. For a brief time, he was in a band with his brother, playing drums for Musty Jack Sponge and the Exploding Nudists. Jason continued to drum for various bands. In the mid 1980`s he was with Buddy Curtis and the Grasshoppers He was then part of the band The People`s Friend and the Empire of Sponge (with former members from The People`s Friend) who released a CD single in January of 2003. In 2003 they appear in and around London and Brighton. On December 30, 1994, Jason was at his mother`s side with his family when Maureen died from complications of leukemia. Jason lives in England with Flora Evans and they have a son, Louie, who was born in 1999 and another son, Sonny, in 2002.