The notorious wild men had driven around Newcastle with a pair of inflatable legs sticking out of Entwistle’s Bentley. Drummer Moon was making “girlie noises” out of the window.And after a concert that night both were visited by officers.
The stunt was revealed in previously unpublished notes late bass player Entwistle made for his memoirs. He wrote: “Visited a joke shop with Moon. We buy a pair of blow-up women’s legs and fit with a pair of fishnet stockings.
"We drive through Newcastle with legs out the window of the Bentley with Keith making screaming girlie noises."
“I notice a policewoman on a walkie-talkie."
“After the show at Paisley Ice Rink, two policemen ask me if I am Mr John Entwistle, owner of the Bentley. A policewoman has reported a woman in distress.
“We were escorted to the hotel where Keith has arranged the legs sticking out of the bath with a blanket over a pillow.
“The police were much relieved after they nervously remove the blanket."
One of Moon's favorite recurring pranks was to disrupt small British villages by blaring bogus public service announcements from a passing car. Though he occasionally used a police bullhorn for these occasions, he also had his own cars rigged up with hidden amplifiers and speakers, which allowed him to keep his windows rolled up while scaring the locals with bulletins about such nonexistent dangers as impending tidal waves or advancing throngs of poisonous snakes, or ruffling their feathers by informing them that the British government would soon be relocating the country's entire immigrant population to their neck of the woods.
Unlike the rest of his bandmates, Moon had no "off" switch – so when the Who were not on tour or in the studio, their drummer had to find other ways to perform. He loved to go out in public dressed in costume, especially if it meant getting a rise out of unsuspecting passersby. One of his favorite getups was that of a bald vicar, who would frighten old ladies by suddenly screaming torrents of obscenities at them.
Once while Moon's "vicar" was strolling down London's crowded Oxford Street in the middle of the day, two "gangsters" set upon him and dragged him kicking and screaming into a waiting Rolls-Royce; the kidnapping was completely staged – members of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band were reportedly involved – but it looked convincing enough to cause a police car to immediately intercept the Rolls (which actually belonged to Moon) before its occupants could even make their getaway.
