30 April 2025

The Who’s legendary drummer KEITH MOON was great at three things.

One, hitting his gear like a madman. Two, non-stop partying. Three, thrashing hotel rooms.

To do that last thing he was very inventive. On 30 April 1976, this day 49 years ago he paid nine cab drivers to block-off both ends of a New York street so he could throw the contents of his hotel room out of the window. Crazy, just crazy.

But fate would hit the at times self-destructive star.

In mid-1978, Moon moved into a flat in Mayfair, London renting from Harry Nilsson.
Singer Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas had died there four years earlier, at the
age of 32. Nilsson was concerned about Moon getting in, believing it was cursed.

Moon, alcoholic by then, died in September that year of an overdose of
medication to battle his drink problems. Like Mama Cass he was only 32.

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