Jagger, meanwhile, insisted that his wedding to Nicaraguan-born actress and model Bianca Macias in May 1971 should be a 'low-key' affair, for which he chose the Riviera on the opening day of the summer season, as well as jetting in 75 rock-star guests including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Keith Moon.
Bianca, who was pregnant with their daughter Jade, left the reception early and went back to their room — only to wake hours later and find Keith Moon abseiling through her sixth-floor window, naked except for a pair of novelty glasses whose eyeballs bounced around in front of him on springs, and a pair of women's underpants on his head.
She later said that her marriage had ended on her wedding day, which began with Jagger demanding she sign a 28-page prenuptial contract.
‘When Keith died he was 32, but looked 60,’ said Who singer Roger Daltrey, who is working on a film of Moon’s life. ‘He really hammered it. When it came
Keith Moon destroyed so many hotel rooms that the incidents tend to blend together into one big ball of devastation
just a year after Mick Jagger's wedding, one incident particularly stands out, however, occurred on the afternoon of August 25th, 1972, when the Who were staying at a luxurious hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. Moon, fascinated by the waterbed in his suite, attempted to enlist Pete Townshend to help him lug its water-filled mattress into the elevator, whereupon they would send it down to the lobby; unfortunately, it burst before they could extricate it from its frame, unleashing foot-high waves out into the hallway.
But Moon (realizing that the best defense was a good offense) quickly rang the manager, told him that the bed had burst and destroyed all of his expensive stage clothes, and huffily asked what he planned to do about it. So good was Moon’s act that the manager not only apologized, but also moved him to the hotel’s antiques-filled Presidential Suite – which the Who, true to form, would completely demolish later that night.
The Paris stop of the Who’s ’72 European tour saw Moon’ drunkenly invaded John “The Ox” Entwistle’s room just as the bassist was sitting down with wife to a lovely French repast.
Oblivious to his intrusion, Moon ate some of Entwistle’s steak, poured a bottle of vintage Bordeaux out onto the carpet and pissed against the wall of Entwistle’s room before finally passing out.
This was too much even for the typically unflappable Entwistle, who responded by trashing every last piece of furniture in Moon’s room, depositing his unconscious bandmate amid the rubble, and storming off.
Moon awoke the next morning with no memory of the previous evening; but the carnage around him was so convincingly Moon-esque, he went to his grave believing he’d been the one who destroyed the room.
