Like a train ride you couldn’t stop.”Īlice Cooper, the “School’s Out” goth rocker who experienced his own fair share of extravagance in the Seventies, says this: “Nobody could compete with Keith Moon. He wanted people to love him and enjoy him but he would go so far. He then jumped back into the car, saying, “I nearly forgot.” Longtime friend and personal assistant Peter “Dougal” Butler said, “He was trying to make people laugh and be Mr Funny.
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Chastened, but still paralytic, “Moon The Loon” was then arrested, while the band received an immediate lifetime ban from all Holiday Inn properties.Īnother apocryphal tragicomic story has him riding in a limo on the way to LAX before insisting that they return to their hotel, saying, “I forgot something.” At the hotel, he apparently ran up to his room, grabbed the TV and threw it out the window into the swimming pool below. Without any keys and with the handbrake released, the car slowly drifted into the pool area before becoming submerged in the water. Unsurprisingly, the police soon arrived, which is when Moon thought it a good idea to jump into a Lincoln Continental in the forecourt (in other versions of the story it’s either a Cadillac or a convertible Roller) in order to make a speedy getaway. As the day dragged on, with more people arriving and more booze flowing and with people starting to get naked in the pool (some taking fire extinguishers with them), a gigantic five-tier birthday cake was produced, which Moon proceeded to throw at anyone he could see (even though at this point he was finding it difficult to see anyone). By noon, there was so much booze in the pool that someone christened it the world’s largest Martini. By 10am, The Who, Herman’s Hermits (who, bizarrely, they were supporting) and their entire road crews were celebrating in and around the hotel’s outdoor swimming pool. One of the most famous stories regarding Moon’s behaviour – and one that seems to become embellished with each telling – revolves around his 21st birthday party at the Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan on The Who’s first American tour in 1967.
And you’ve only heard a tenth of it (Alice Cooper) He would drive through villages in his Rolls-Royce, blaring out bogus public service announcements, dress up as a bald vicar and swear at people in the street, hire people to throw lemon pies at friends at Hollywood film premieres and once marched into Marks & Spencer on a mission to buy some one-legged trousers.Įverything you’ve ever heard about Keith Moon is true. He also enjoyed breaking into bandmates’ rooms, removing all of their furniture and then relieving himself on the curtains. Predictably Moon destroyed the room later that night. When it burst – when was it not going to burst? – he rang the hotel manager, complained that the bed had ruined his stage clothes and was promptly upgraded to a bigger, antique-filled suite.
In 1972, in Copenhagen, he asked Townshend to help him put his waterbed into the hotel lift, so he could send it down to the lobby.
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He soon developed a habit for destroying his hotel rooms while on tour, deliberately breaking the furniture and throwing things out of the windows (particularly TV sets). There was more (there was always more with Keith Moon).
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