Keith Moon

Keith John Moon (August 23rd 1946 - September 7th 1978) was the beater of the British rock group The Who. It was born in London in 1946, although it claimed to be born later one year.

After its death, it was replaced by the beater of the Small Faces Kenney Jones, and in the last concerts by Zak Starkey, of which he was the godfather. Who were never done everything given of its death besides, and their following albums are generally regarded as definitely lower.

Biography

Wire of Alfred and Kathleen Moon, Keith is born with London the August 23rd 1946. Living in Alperton in its youth, he is a child hyperactive and equipped with a great imagination. However, its school reports/ratios are hardly encouraging, one as of its professors of Art going until qualifying it “delayed artistically” and of “idiot with many regards”. The only thing able to interest Moon remains the Musique. Very early, its professors appreciate his technique based on a chaotic play, recognizing its “great capacity”. Moon misses an examination and leaves the school in 1961

He marries Kim McLagan, then enclosure, the March 27th 1966. His/her Amanda daughter is born four months later, the July 12th. Kerrigan leaves Keith in 1973 and takes along Amanda with it. The divorce is officialized in 1975

Very quickly, it gains the reputation all to destroy, of the batteries to the hotel rooms. The most famous history about it relates to the immersion of a Rolls-Royce in a swimming pool of a hotel of Michigan, even if this history is disputed by the biographer of Keith Moon, Tony Fletcher, while Roger Daltrey affirms to have seen the invoice of 50,000$ which resulted from it. Moon would have been also wounded with the teeth at this time there. However, it appears more probable than all this results from a fusion between two stories. At the time of the round of the group to the the United States, Moon had organized a festival in a hotel of Michigan for its twenty-and-unième birthday, after a concert of the group. The evening proceeded quietly (except for combat of food) until members of the group Herman' S Hermits (which was in round with the Who are reflected to remove the pants of Moon. This last, not wearing underclothing, was took of a terrible embarrassment. It is by wanting to leave while running that it fell face against ground and a tooth broke. John Entwistle and a member of Herman' S Hermits transported it in a dentist. During this time, the guests left the room where the festival proceeded and ransacked the hotel by reversing the vending machines and by concealing the extinguishers of the cars. The invoice of the damage rose to several thousands of dollars. According to the book The Who In Their Own Words , Moon would have told that this history would have occurred in a Holiday Inn from the town of Flint in the Michigan and conveys it led in the swimming pool would be a Lincoln Continental. He would have as declared as it is in this way that he had broken a tooth.

Among the escapades of Keith Moon, one also counts the ingurgitation of a Somnifère for horse at the time of a concert of the round Quadrophenia the November 20th 1973 with the Cow Palace of Daly City in California, a fan of the group having presented “new a brilliant drug to him” when a half-seal is consumed with cognac, this what Moon answered: “, You Wait know who I am? I am Keith Moon! I do not take a half - seal, I take an entirety, me! ” before being carried out. The concert was filmed. One can see Keith Moon collapsing on his clear Caisse right in the middle of Magic Bus : K.O. “New drug” was in fact a sleeping pill for horses: Keith Moon, out of state to play, was replaced by a spectator of crowd, Scott Halpin. The beater spent two days to be gone back some, during which, transported in wheelchair and unable to speak, it had to undergo the sarcastic remarks of Pete Townshend.

The January 4th 1970, Moon is implied in an car accident outside the pub of Red Lion in the town of Hatfield in the county of Hertfordshire. While trying to escape a group from Skinhead S from the pub increasingly hostile which had started to attack its Bentley, it killed its bodyguard and friend, Neil Boland. The medical examiner declared that the death of Boland was due to an accident, Moon was discharged from any responsibility after being shown to have killed Boland, but this memory will haunt it thereafter. Later, the girl of Boland tried to prove that Keith Moon was not at the wheel of the car.

Keith Moon dies the September 7th 1978, at the 32 years age, after being invited by Paul McCartney with the preview of the film The Buddy Holly Story. Moon leaves the evening early, accompanied by his/her boyfriend, Annette Walter-Lax, and turns over to his apartment located on Curzon Place, in London. The cause of its death is an overdose of drugs used to treat its alcoholism. The police force will then find 32 pills in its organization, of which certain not-dissolved.

Career

Within Who

See also: The Who

Moon integrated The Who in April 1964 into the 17 years age in order to replace the original beater, Doug Sandom, left a few months earlier. Townshend will describe Keith like a " later; man gingembre" in reference to clothing as with its hair color Ginger when he played for the first time in the group. Pete Townshend told the way in which Keith Moon joined Who: " It came to one from our concerts, and said " I can play better than your beater! ". It settled then behind the battery and destroyed almost completely it. We said ourselves " immediately; it is the man who we need! " . Keith Moon will perpetuate this destroying tradition thereafter.

Moon starts with officer on a battery of four or five parts, before playing on a kit doubles low British First. This change was inspired to him by Ginger Baker when this last acknowledged to him to await a set doubles low American Ludwig. Moon then decided to assemble two British sets First in only one and single kit. This will constitute a change its play, giving up gradually its Cymbale S hi-hat in order to constitute a wall of white Bruit thanks to the cymbals crash landing and wrinkle . At the beginning of their career, Who had the reputation to destroy their material at the end in each concert. Moon showed a certain zeal for this activity, typing violently on its battery, until pulverizing this one: its batteries seldom survived a concert, and were to often be fastened on the ground not to move under its blows. It went even until renting a battery with fireworks, which it exploded at the end My Generation, which according to the legend, left with its partner Pete Townshend a permanent hearing disorder. Another time, it fills of water one of its cases before placing red fish there. A woman in the public asked him: “What C you C with the goldfish? ” (“That do you make with red fish? ”), he answered: “The goldfish? Er… Even the best drummers get hungry. ” (“fish? Hum… Even the best beaters are hungry. ”). These antics were worth to him the nickname of Moon the Loon (translation approximate: “Moon the insane one”).

Moon was particularly enthusiastic in connection with the song. The other members of the group had sometimes to exclude it from the studios during the recordings of the words its determination to be sung so much was tall. This led Moon has to want to be discreetly introduced into the room in order to join the remainder of the group. At the end of the song Happy Jack , one can intend Townshend to say “I saw ya! ”, by seeing Moon trying once more to return in the studio. However, it can be heard on the songs Bell Servant boy , has Quick One While He' S Away , Bucket T and Barbara Ann (begun again song of the Beach Boys, Moon being a fan of this group) and Armenia City In The Sky . For the Tommy film, he sings even Fiddle About and Tommy' S Holiday Camp , whereas Pete Townshend recorded the version studio.

Apart from Who

Although its activity within Who dominated its career, it had also a minor action in certain projects. In 1966, it trains a team with the guitarist of the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and the future members of Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones to record instrumental: Beck' S Bolero , published like individual later in the year. Moon is as known to have found the name of Led Zeppelin, noticing as this strange group was going “to run as a lead zeppelin” (the history gave him wrong). Another version wants that it quite simply compared its product by the group of Jimmy Page with that of a zeppelin which would be crushed. Besides the small pocket of the first opus Led Zeppelin seems largely to be inspired some.

In 1974, it launches its first album solo, a collection of pop songs, called Two Sides off the Moon (title inspired by the planetary success of Dark Side Of The Moon of Pink Floyd).

In 1971, it has a role in film of Frank Zappa: 200 Motels: he plays a timorous transvestite disguised as a good-sister. In 1976, it plays the tube of the Beatles When I' m Sixty-Furnace for the band of the documentary one: All This And World War II . In 1973, it plays in the film That' L Be the Day by incarnating J.D. Clover, a beater residing in a holiday camp lasting the first years of the rock'n'roll “roll English. It also appears in the continuation, Stardust in 1974. In 1975, it holds the role of Uncle Ernie in the film Tommy of Ken Russel, drawn from the album éponyme of the group. It takes again in 1976 the song When I' m Sixty-Furnace for the documentary musical one of the Beatles 'All This and World War II . It should have held a role in the film the Life of Brian of the Monty Python, and remained in the the Caribbean with them lasting the writing of the scenario. He died before the beginning of turning.

He also had a hotel with Chipping Norton, behind which a barn was where it sometimes happened to him to repeat with The Who.

Style and influence

Moon had a quite particular style and left some of the best pieces of battery of the Rock' roll. He is still nowadays regarded as one of the largest beaters of the history of the Rock'n'roll, a great rhythmic inventiveness and a power out of the commun run. Contemporary beaters like Mitch Mitchell and Ginger Baker can all be claimed to have had it like influences major. The Anarchisme of Moon left a large trace in the popular music of today. To the image of his colleague John Entwistle, he managed to provide a solid base to the group while permanently appearing to be practicing a solo. Its style was particularly singular, sometimes following the melody of the song by very frequent station-wagons . Moon treated more the battery like an instrument soloist than like pure rhythm section; on this subject, to listen to the counterpoints of the song Happy Jack, which are often quoted to be prototypes of the play of the beater of Who. It should be noted that, like the famous jazzman Gene Krupa, it did not fold the wrists to play. A contrast was thus born between its full and delicate gesture (but nevertheless extremely swift) and the particularly powerful sound coming from the shock.

Homages and references

Anthony Kiedis, the singer of the American group Red Hot Chili Peppers, declares in its memories, that being child, it wanted to accompany his father in the nightclubs, where it sold drug in Keith Moon.
the June 8th 2006, the newspaper American Satirique The Onion diffused a new audio entitled “Researchers At Keith Moon Institute Destroy Institute”.
the group of London Punk Peter and the Test Tubes Babies off written a song entitled Spirit Keith Moon based on its personality and its capacity of destruction.
In a board of the Comic Achewood of April 2006, the character Ray Smuckles finds the head of Keith Moon preserved in Vodka, available to the sale on the system of Vente in line EBay Platinum Reserve. Later, the head takes again life and is agitated in its bottle before disappearing mysteriously.
the creator of animations flash Jonti Picking includes Keith Moon in its series (Anything Can Happen) One the Moon in 2006. This one appears as a funeral Urn carrying the inscription R.I.P. Keith .
In 1997, in the play Playstation Gex: Enter the Gecko , the main character, Gex can be heard saying “This one' S for Keith Moon! ” (“That one is for Keith Moon! ”)
In the film Wayne's World 2 left in 1993, a technician tells how him, David Crosby and Keith Moon dévalisé a candy store in Sri Lanka to have a thousand of M&M' S maroon in order to be able to fill glass with brandy, otherwise “Ozzy would not like to go up on scene”.
Keith Moon is described like one of the supernatural phenomena appearing in the televised version of the Rêves and nightmares of Stephen King in the episode a group of hell . Its name is also mentioned in the written version.
the humorist and actor Bill Hicks imagined the " vraies" rockstars to make advertisement for famous brands. It thus represented Keith Moon to make publicity for the bars Snickers.
In the American televised series Psych , the main character, Shawn Spencer refers to Keith Moon while speaking about a person destroying the hotel rooms.
In the film Rock'n'roll Academy, a sequence where Keith Moon plays of the battery is visible.

The film

Roger Daltrey, the singer of the Who, currently develops a feature-length film that it by-product reporting the life of Keith Moon.

Always in the search of a realizer, Roger Daltrey benefitted from an interview granted to Internet site “Sky News” to reveal that Mike Myers could hold the main role of film well. Nicolas Cage and Tim Roth is both had a presentiment of for the role of the guitarist of the formation, Pete Townshend. Nicolas Cage would thus show with the public admiration that it always carried to the group. The exit into the room is planned for 2009.

The film, currently in pre-production, will have as a final title: " See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked For Your Pleasure " .

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