[121] The incorrect date had been supplied by Moon in interviews before it was corrected by Fletcher to 1946. [15] Moon also enjoyed singing, with a particular interest in Motown. Ginger Baker interview: an afternoon with the world's most irascible function documentInitOneSignal() { Former Who drummer Kenney Jones picks 10 outstanding moments from the career of his predecessor, Keith Moon. He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1982, becoming the second rock drummer to be chosen, and in 2011 he was voted the second-greatest drummer in history by a Rolling Stone readers' poll. Hes notKeith Moon. I would never put on an LP of a drummer and say everything he did I love because thats not true.. Keith Moon now theres a drummer who doesnt believe in my policy of taking a back seat! joked his eventual successor Kenney Jones, during Small Faces heyday of 1966. This classic from Tommy is the quintessential example of how Moons bombastic drumming could add gravitas to a particularly emotional song. By Dave Marsh. Moon developed a habit of kicking over his drums, claiming that he did so in exasperation at an audience's indifference. There simply was no one like Keith, and that holds true to this day. Not a rock drummer, a jazz drummer really, and thats why the Stones swung like the Basie band!! [130], In 1973 Kim, convinced that neither she nor anyone else could moderate Keith's behaviour, left her husband and took Amanda;[131] she sued for divorce in 1975 and later married Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan. He was a very charming bloke, a lovely guy, really, but quite But he could be a difficult guy, really. Tony Fletcher wrote that "no toilet in a hotel or changing room was safe" until Moon had exhausted his supply of explosives. "[128] He loved Amanda, but his absences due to touring and fondness for practical jokes made their relationship uneasy when she was very young. He was the so-called mod who loved surf music and daft humor. "[76] During one of his few televised solo drum performances (for ABC's Wide World), Moon played a five-minute drum solo dressed as a cat on transparent acrylic drums filled with water and goldfish. This has helped me to make the website better and bring the best of classic rock to the world! The Keith Moon of years past would have . Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas had died there four years earlier, at the age of 32;[147][148] Nilsson was concerned about letting the flat to Moon, believing it was cursed.
