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Keith Moon: The White Tornado

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978

ON THE RADIO they were playing a tribute to Keith Moon. They put on 'My Generation' by the Who. We heard the line that now has a hollow ring. But at the crucial moment, they faded-out the drums, that glorious outburst of percussive exhuberance that epitomised Moon as man and musician.

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