Music Banter - Keith Moon died today in 1978

Music Banter (https://www.musicbanter.com/)

- Rock N Roll, Classic Rock & 60s Rock (https://www.musicbanter.com/rock-n-roll-classic-rock-60s-rock/)

- - Keith Moon died today in 1978 (https://www.musicbanter.com/rock-n-roll-classic-rock-60s-rock/9894-keith-moon-died-today-1978-a.html)

Keith Moon died today in 1978

We diddn't get a moon 59th birthday thread on Aug. 23. but we've got this one. THe Drummer.

keith moon is the **** hes awsome forget how he died though....

on the morning of September 7th, he woke up and ate breakfast and then took an overdose of anti-alchohol addiction pills i think

I though it was anti-seizure medication

im pretty sure it was something to combat his alchohol addiction but i may be wrong

Just Wait for Zygomycota to post on this.... he knows.

ill try to dig out my "maximum r&b" book by richard barnes - i remeber a good moon story in it:

it was keith moons birtday in 1967 and the Who were on tour in america so they hired a function centre in a holiday inn hotel. At 11.30, the manager of the hotel came in and told them to wrap up the party. He came back at 5 to 12 adn the party was still going strong. He threatened to call the police and then keith moon chucked a cake in his face. this resulted in the WHo being banned from all holiday inns in america.

Yes, he was a great drummer, and a innovative and highly influencial one, Along with Ginger Baker he was one of the first rock drummers to use the double bass drum, his radical drumming style was very influencial...He will never be forgotton, so lets pay tribute to the man by drinking a round of beers, it's on me, cheers.

:beer:

keith loved a beer, and there is another story of how he was at his local pub and it was really busy and he couldnt get served, so he stripped off and lay down along the bar, he then, getting the attention of the barman, ordered his drinks

Keith Moon was truly an influential person and without him Led Zeppelin probably wouldn't have had the same band name they have today

Yeah. Look at the avatar.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLostProphet (Post 115720)

Keith Moon was truly an influential person and without him Led Zeppelin probably wouldn't have had the same band name they have today

Yeah, they might've been known as the "New Yardbirds" for all eternity. Anywho... of all the Who members I dislike him the least, he wasn't a bad drummer to say the least. The more I hear the theme songs to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, or CSI: NY the I more dislike The Who. Thanks Jerry Bruckheimer. :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith Moon - Wikipedia

Moon was Paul McCartney's guest at a film preview of The Buddy Holly Story on the evening of 6 September 1978. After dining with Paul and Linda McCartney at Peppermint Park in Covent Garden, Moon and his girlfriend, Annette Walter-Lax, returned to a flat on loan from Harry Nilsson, No.12 at 9 Curzon Place, Mayfair in which Cass Elliot had died a little more than four years earlier.[34] Moon then took 32 tablets of Clomethiazole (Heminevrin).[6] The medication was a sedative he had been prescribed to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms as he tried to go dry on his own at home; he was desperate to get clean, but was terrified of another stay in the psychiatric hospital for in-patient detoxification. However, Clomethiazole is specifically contraindicated for unsupervised home detox because of its addictiveness, tendency to rapidly induce drug tolerance and dangerously high risk of death when mixed with alcohol.[35] The pills were also prescribed by a new doctor, Dr. Geoffrey Dymond, who was unaware of Moon's recklessly impulsive nature and long history of prescription sedative abuse. He had given Moon a full bottle of 100 pills, and instructed him to take one whenever he felt a craving for alcohol (but not more than 3 per day). The police determined there were 32 pills in his system, with the digestion of 6 being sufficient to cause his death, and the other 26 of which were still undissolved when he died.[6]

Keith Moon was cremated after his death in September 1978. His ashes were scattered in the Gardens of Remembrance at Golders Green Crematorium in London.