Il batterista Keith Moon, morto nel 1978, è stato invitato dal comito per i giochi olimpici all'inaugurazione delle Olimpiadi di Londra 2012. Questo curioso aneddoto al confine tra il comico e il macabro è stato confermato ufficialmente dal cantante Roger Daltery , che militava con Moon nei The Who . «Può accadere solo in Gran Bretagna. Ci è arrivata un'email che chiedeva se Keith Moon potesse presenziare alla cerimonia di apertura. [...]» Daltrey rivela anche che il manager della band ha risposto al comitato olimpico, senza perdere occasione di sfoderare [...]
Right on time. Via HuffPo : "I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to The Who's anthemic line 'I hope I die before I get old,'" [The Who's manager, Bill] Curbishley told Metro.co.uk. "If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him." WE WILL GET FOOLED AGAIN and other The Who jokes. Maybe he can perform as a hologram ! RIP Keith Moon we love you, enough to know better.
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Keystone Hulton Archive The legend of Keith Moon continues to live on -- but the London Olympic Committee apparently thinks the late Who drummer is still alive, too. British publication Metro reports the Who's manager Bill Curbishley was asked by organizers of this summer's London Olympics if Moon -- who died in 1978 -- "would be available" to perform. "I emailed [...]
A fine, if slightly flawed re-examining of what is arguably the Who's greatest album.
A fine, if slightly flawed re-examining of what is arguably the Who's greatest album.
Featuring archival footage, dramatic reenactments, and interviews with his family and closest companions, Final 24 documents the final moments of Keith Moon's life. Read more »
This weekend, the Dave Matthews Band will return to New York City with their traveling multi-day festival - Caravan - after Hurricane Irene forced the postponement of its final two days several weeks back. Moving just a bit north up the East River from Governor's Island to Randall's Island, the fest will retain its three-day format, where the DMB will be joined by the likes of Dispatch, who will play on Friday and Saturday nights, Warren Haynes, who will perform a special solo set, and vintage jam act From Good Homes. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds [...]
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Tweet "Like The Smashing Pumpkins , when they were good." So Lightouts describe themselves. I've heard of less ambitious introductions - there is such a thing as setting yourself up for a fall. How many members did The Smashing Pumpkins have, again? Like, four plus several extras? And we're talking about the early years, with Billy Corgan at the peak of his powers. Up against this towering monolith of rock go two blokes from a grubby suburb of New York. You could be [...]
Another post in the tradition that began last month, where Issar Tennenbaum, legendary drummer of Rockfour, writes about this influences. This time, on his second post, Issar writes about the most famous and rich clown in the world - Ringo Starr. A Drummer that's always being treated as the lucky bastard, and less as a drummer. Issar [...]
August 23, 2010 would have been Keith John Moon's 64th birthday. It's just another reminder that excess will catch up to you. Musicians that seem to disappear prematurely have a way of bothering music fans more than most early deaths. You have their albums and hopefully there are many before their time comes, but it always leaves you wanting more. Getting cut down in the prime of your life, let alone your musical career, is just sad. And frustrating. As a life long Who fan I still miss Keith Moon. No matter how many times I hear "Bargain" I always think of the drumming. Man could this [...]
An instrumental track recorded by Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins and Keith Moon. The group planned to record a whole album, but contractual obligations prevented them from recording together again and this was the only song from that session released.
Roger Daltrey, cantante dei leggendari The Who , ha recentemente rispolverato l'idea di un film biografico sul compianto Keith Moon , storico batterista della band morto nel 1978, ancora molto giovane. «Il film su Keith Moon dipende da qualcuno che mi faccia sedere con uno scrittore abbastanza tempo per fare le cose come si deve. Se io passassi sei settimane di tempo con un buono sceneggiatore, potrei farcela. Ho tutto raffigurato nella mia testa. So come questo film dovrebbe essere, il modo in cui dovrebbe essere strutturata la narrazione» E [...]
Filed under: News , UK Not for the first time has a member of the Who gone running into the arms of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page . Back in the mid 1960s, the seeds of Led Zeppelin were sown when the Who's drummer Keith Moon (who inadvertently named the group) joined Page and fellow Yardbird Jeff Beck -- along with bassist John Paul Jones and keyboard player Nicky Hopkins -- to record 'Beck's Bolero.' Now, 44 years later, the Who's [...]
Keith Moon was so memorable that his name still resonates as a metaphor for insane energy, out-of-bounds exuberance, and Olympian talent. The words of this anonymous writer have gone totally unheeded: "You can't call yourself 'the Keith Moon' of anything until you've driven a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool."
There's a classic bedtime storybook called Goodnight Moon . Even though it was first published in 1947, I had never heard of it before now, because I was more about Where The Wild Things Are. You can watch a brief animated version of the original book here , as narrated by Susan Sarandon. Whether you're familiar with the original story or not, you'll still enjoy the Keith Moon version that can be viewed, read and purchased here . I even found a song titled "Goodnight Moon" and it's quite [...]
Nothing like tucking in your bastard child with a nice bedtime story about The Who drummer Keith Moon. Sure, it's a little macabre, but everyone knows that tales of the Boogie Man are uber emo. ( via ) Related posts: Must Have of the [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Goodnight Keith Moon is a parody of the classic children's picture book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. This version by Bruce Worden and Clare Cross features Keith Moon (1946-1978), drummer for The Who. Obviously, you're childhood is about to be destroyed. But in a clever way! [ via ]
As kids, we all loved Magaret Wise Brown's classic picture book Goodnight Moon . And who out there isn't a Who fan? Drawing on the combined appeal of both these cultural gems, Bruce Worden and Claire Cross give us Goodnight Keith Moon . In the video below, we say goodnight to "dead Keith Moon," " Townshend jumping over the moon," the ghost of Mama Cass and a pile of vomit. There is even an illustration in which falling snow is replaced by white pills raining from [...]
Join us as we tinker with some of the key moments in the history of rock and roll and detail what could have been had what actually happened never happened at all.
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Holy Hell The Eagles ' Joe Walsh tore out hotel walls with a chainsaw. Who drummer Keith Moon drove his car into a pool. Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious was charged with murder. But as those drug-addled musicians lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle to excess in the '70s, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson was concluding concert nights with a book and a quiet hotel room. "Everybody was [...]
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I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
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