His drumming became irregular and unpredictable. This addictive side to his nature flowed into the 70s, playing against the band, his family and friends. His on-stage aggression, destroying his drum kits while still playing them and wrecking hotel rooms, apart from being an obvious publicity stunt, was fuelled with an over use of drugs and alcohol. Keith rarely played the drums while away from The Who, he sang on the album, and played the drums on only three of the tracks. While in California, he made his only solo album, Two Sides of The Moon, for MCA Records, a 1975 release, with many guest artists. He started to live the high life in California, with the likes of John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr, Ringo's son, Zak, was his godson, ironically, it was Zak who played with The Who in their later career, during the nineties and beyond. Kim soon left him, taking their young daughter with her. He may have been the perfect showman, but behind the scenes, he was often a very aggressive man to live around and with. In the meantime, he had fathered a daughter, Mandy, to Kim. With a flair for theatrical and ridiculous behaviour, he was the centre point and self-publicist for, if they liked it or not, The Who. ![]() With a desire, a need if you like, to be the centre of attention, this hyperactive, and largely, self destructive, personality became his own worst enemy. ![]() With his own unique style of drumming, rolling the sticks along the skins as to banging the typical beat, he was to become extrovertly charismatic in his life as well as his playing. ![]() There was rumour that Keith was self-taught, but history says otherwise, he was shown how to play by the late Carlo Little (1938-2005), Carlo was the original drummer in The Rolling Stones and David Sutch's band, The Savages.īy the age of 18, he had joined a local London band, The High Numbers this was to consist of what is now known as The Who. He left school by 15 and was in his first band, The Beachcombers this was around the summer of 1963. At the age of 12, he had joined the Sea Cadet Corp and was given his first musical instrument, the bugle. Keith John Moon was born to working class parents in Wembley, London, England, on the 23rd August, 1946.
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