Keith Moon
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Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975
LOS ANGELES: In the last six months, he's jammed with Ray Manzarek at the Whiskey, played with John Sebastian at the Troubadour and recently, at ...
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Interview by James Johnson, Rock's Backpages audio, August 1978
With RBP mainstay Keith Altham cackling in the background, the daft Who sticksman talks about the rise of punk; the Who's investment in Shepperton Studios; the recording of Who Are You; his thoughts on marriage, and his Wild Man of Rock image.
File format: mp3; file size: 41.9mb, interview length: 45' 48" sound quality: ***
The Who's Pete Townshend on Keith Moon (1980)
Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages audio, 1980
Pete describes first meeting Keith Moon and the drummer's immediate impact on the band; Moon's conflict with Roger Daltrey, mostly over women, and the changing personal dynamics within the band; the musical intuition between Townshend, Entwistle and Moon; Keith's eccentricities and lunacy; gear-smashing, women, drugs and drink... and the inevitable fist fights.
File format: mp3; file size: 25.7mb, interview length: 26' 44" sound quality: ****
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Keith Moon: The Little Drummer Boy
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, December 1966
There are many sides to Keith Moon's strange personality. One minute he's insulting, exaggerating, joking — the next minute he's a wide-eyed, innocent-looking drummer boy. ...
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, July 1968
WHO made Keith Moon spill the beans about his secret marriage? Read on for this and more dark secrets of the group, revealed by RAVE's ...
Keith Moon: College Cheques Don't Bounce!
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 29 March 1969
AFTER MISSING our first arranged meeting due to an unexpected Radio One Club appearance, the highly effervescent Keith Moon burst into the bar to meet ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Rave, July 1969
CONDUCTING an interview with Keith Moon is rather like running a mental obstacle course with a megalomaniac (his manager's reference, not mine), with imminent danger ...
Viv Stanshall: If it's not the S.S. it's bleedin' campers...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 2 January 1971
THE ABSURD strikes back. This time it's the Fuhrer and his faithful SS attendant dancing in one of London's Beer Kellers. Before that, it was ...
Various, Drum Bash: Bumpers Club, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971
DEAFENING fun! That was the all-star drum conversation held at London's Bumpers Club last week. ...
Keith Moon: Bored Side Of The Moon
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 5 May 1973
Penny Valentine meets an old friend ...
Keith Moon: Like A Rat Up A Pipe
Profile by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, December 1975
IF PETE Townshend is the mind of The Who, Entwistle the soul, and Roger the heart, then drummer Keith Moon is most definitely the gut. ...
Keith Moon: The Chancellor and the Drummer Boy
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 January 1976
Is KEITH MOON The Biggest Loony in the World? Or is DENIS HEALEY Even Dafter? ROY CARR tells the heart-tugging tale of The Chancellor and ...
Keith Moon: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
SOMETIME IN 1972, when my admiration for the Who was at its most passionate peak, I spent an afternoon at Keith Moon's house in Chertsey. ...
Obituary by 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 ...
Keith Moon and rock 'n' roll: "Hope I die before I get old"
Obituary by Bill Holdship, Michigan State News, 22 September 1978
WHO DRUMMER Keith Moon died Sept. 7 from an overdose of a sedative prescribed to combat alcoholism. He was 31. The Who, presently finishing their ...
The Who Come To a Fork in the Road
Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1978
"THIS POOR hotel," says Pete Townshend, gesturing at his spacious suite in the Navarro Hotel on New York's posh Central Park South. "Mr. Russell, the ...
Obituary by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 19 October 1978
LONDON, ENGLAND — Keith Moon died before he got old. The Who's spark-plug drummer, who turned thirty-one on August 23rd, was found dead in the bedroom ...
Profile by Chris Welch, The History of Rock, 1981
LONG BEFORE the myths and legends of Keith Moon as a rock celebrity began to grip the imagination of the public and sensation-hungry newspapers, his ...
Drummers: Adventurers in the Skins Trade
Overview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 8 March 1991
Dim, manic, noisy, and rarely women. But drummers aren't all troll-like, says Adam Sweeting ...
Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, 1996
WORD for word, anecdote for anecdote, insight for insight, Jeff Beck was probably the best interview I conducted for my Keith Moon biography. ...
Book Excerpt by Tony Fletcher, Omnibus Books, 1998
An extract from Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon, by Tony Fletcher, first published by Omnibus Press in 1998. (616pp, currently available in the ...
Keith Moon: Patent British Exploding Drummer
Profile and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, September 1998
BOY, HOW WE CHERISH ROCK'S foundation myths. The idea that merchant seamen brought back rare R&B records to Liverpool docks and fuelled the Merseybeat ...
Retrospective by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, April 2008
MY FIRST experience of trying to interview Keith Moon in June '65 as a music journalist should have alerted me to the problems yet to ...
Keith Moon: Moonie On The Pull
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, May 2009
IT IS THE prerogative of rock stars to enjoy the attentions of beautiful women to a greater degree than most other men, and among those ...
Memoir by Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 18 April 2010
An afternoon with the Who drummer started with him putting wing mirrors on a donkey then went steadily downhill ...
Keith Moon Drives His Car Into a Swimming Pool
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, November 2012
IN 1967, Holiday Inn was the world's largest hotel chain, with nearly 1,000 properties – comprised primarily of roadside motels. ...
Good Time Girl: Memories of super groupie Pamela Des Barres
Retrospective and Interview by Craig McLean, The Observer, 6 May 2018
Pamela Des Barres had the giants of rock'n'roll in the palm of her hand, as her candid memoir reveals. ...
The 10 best Keith Moon performances, by Kenney Jones
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, 22 December 2023
Kenney Jones replaced the irrepressible Keith Moon in The Who in 1978 — and these are performances by his predecessor he loves the most ...
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