One of Moon’s final appearances on camera was in The Who’s video for the title hit from his last album with them, Who Are You. But I can imagine he must have taken the piss out of me something terrible! The mind boggles.”

I mean, looking at the audience is what the singer does, he never sees the band. The entertainment from that man…the humor. “I understand how it wasn’t four-to-the-floor rock’n’roll drumming, but for The Who, it was perfect. “He played with every instrument playing on stage, and he managed to make it work,” Daltrey continued. “It’s just that his algorithms were a little bit different, that’s all it was. “The general perception of Keith Moon as a drummer is that he was chaotic, sloppy, but it was anything but,” said the frontman. Perfectly suited for The Whoĭaltrey affectionately put the world to rights about Moon’s importance to The Who in a conversation with this writer in 2016. It’s still impossible to think that Moony was just 32 years old. For all the abiding glory of Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey’s brilliant 12th album under the band’s name, WHO, even they would admit that the soul of the group was wounded beyond measure that sad night of September 7, 1978. He was there through eight albums and around 35 singles, unforgettable to the last beat. More seriously, it’s very rare to come across a record by The Who on which Moon is not a crucial part. Maybe he’s living out a quiet retirement somewhere up there, or down there…as if. He was never likely to make old bones, but if rock stars live dog years, then the 14 in which Keith Moon was in all of our lives are like another person’s lifetime.

When Moon was recruited by the fledgling Who in 1964 after passing an audition in a pub, no one would pretend that they knew how the dangerous, essential chemistry would develop between four of the most cohesive forces rock music would ever see. And to think he was originally going to play the bugle. Many, if not most, of the things you’ve heard about The Who drummer’s eccentricity (other descriptions are available) are probably accurate – but they sometimes get in the way of the overriding musical truth about the man: that he was a drummer like no other. There are other times when the legend is the truth, but obscures another story – and Keith Moon belongs in that category.

The legend is often well known for outselling the truth.

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