Rock Wild Stories 3: Pete Townshend Talks on Keith Moon

By editorial board on December 22, 2017

Keith had set to have a big birthday party, instigated by a banner hanging in front all'Holyday Inn saying "Happy 21° Birthday  Keith Moon" He performed it actually only 20.

When I came down in the party room the cake was squashed all  over the floor, on the walls, on the face of Keith. In the pool a Lincoln Continental was in precarious balance between the water and the edge. After they told me that Keith had removed the handbrake and the vehicle had started by itself towards the pool.

As I tried to return it to the room Keith gave in outburst, a young man approached and asked for an autograph. He then gave him against a lamp hitting the head. Keith even managed to break the teeth slipping as he was running in the hall  with cake on the floor and was not arrested just because we took him secretly to a dentist. After that night The Who were banned for life from the Holiday Inn.nudemoon

On a flight from Sydney to Melbourne the hostess was very rude and we reacted as usual and the pilot threatened to have us arrested once on ground. A few days later they gave  us a telegram in which Australian Prime Minister informed us that because of our misconduct, he was forced to retain the proceeds of the tour to repay the damage, allowing  never set foot in Australia.

The news had preceded us in New Zealand and Steve Marriott decided to do a birthday party and decided to do like Keith Moon: threw a television out the window. The unit fell just as he passed a police car. The police were right in our room, but the surprise was that joined the birthday and left us a case of beer to make us understand that New Zealanders were not like the Australian neighbors.

Dinner at Tramp was Pacific prawns washed down by Dom Perignon – the usual luxurious Keith Moon supper. But when the bill came, even Keith looked unusually aghast. For a rare few moments, there was complete silence. Eventually Karl asked if his friend was all right.

“How many prawns did we have?” asked Keith by way of reply.

“About 24, I think,” replied Karl.

“They’ve gone up. The bill’s £14,000! That’s nearly £600,0 a prawn! I mean, I don’t mind, but it’s a bit much.” He called over the manager.

“These prawns. They’ve gone up, haven’t they?”

“No, Mr Moon. That’s your bill  for the last year.”

Behind the scenes in Los Angeles it was clear that the band was becoming increasingly cool. The stylish actresses in Hollywood came and went from the dressing backstage and Mick and Bianca Jagger attended our concert standing on one side of the stage. I was wearing a crown that I found in a theatrical tricks store and asked Mick what he thought. "It 's hard to take you seriously Pete, you look like a jerk."

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During a tour in the USA Keith Moon organized a birthday dinner for him and his starlets of the moment. It was easy to know when Keith was lying. He was dressed in a dinner jacket and black velvet slippers and was full of medallions and chains rings. At the center table were flowers and Keith ate one. And then he proposed a toast: "I also have another announcement to make. I leave the band, leave the Who. They offered me a part in the Marty Scorsese film and I told my agent to accept. " I was baddly furious "and now what will you do? You'll eat another flower?"No,you'll eat "I accepted the challenge and immediately my throat burned down: I was choking. When the situation returned to normal Keith looked at me in the face and read the signs of a real concern. Keith almost cryed with eyes full of tears in front of me and i start  to breathe again .Then he turned to the others in the room. "Champagne! - he shouted - Dom Perignon 1924! ""Keith -  we do not want to celebrate the fact that you leaving The Who"

"I only did to impress on  kathy, in fact she does not know who are the Who, some silly pussy only know Hollywood"

Kathy looked at us one by one and tought we were really crazy or ran out from a madhouse.

When the noise from Keith’s room got particularly excessive one day, the Wilshire management cut off his electricity. Infuriated, Keith responded with a now famous course of action. He moved himself and his furniture out into the hallway, plugged his stereo into the sockets there and sat down in his armchair – naked. It was altogether easier for the hotel to let him return to his room to make a noise than invade everyone else’s personal space.

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