Fun fact you may not find pictures of Keith Moon with ginger hair but I did find these when I searched for it... Enjoy!! ♥

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FLINT TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN - IT WAS ONE SWIM THE CITY WOULD REMEMBER & A BIRTHDAY BASH OF A MAN WHO WAS 19 GOING ON 20 GOING ON 21

In August 1967, the band arrived in Holiday Inn, Flint, Michigan to a 'Happy Birthday Keith' sign erected by the hotel management in line with his 21st birthday. Truth is he was turning 20 that year as recalled by the late Who basisst, Enstwistle. "Keith was excited at the prospect that he could drink because he was celebrating his 21st birthday and drink he did."

After performing at the Atwood High School Football Stadium, Keith returned to the hotel and started a food fight. Within seconds, cake started to fly around and the evening cultivated to an already very drunk Keith knocking out his front tooth. He was brought to a nearby hospital but doctors could not give him anaesthetic due to his plastered condition so they took out the remaining tooth without the aid of any medication. The wildest birthday bash in the American history ended up with fire extinguishers being set off, hotel properties and guests' floating in the pool and a grand piano destroyed in the process. Hence, even the police had to draw out their handguns to put an end to the chaos.

It was during this time that a very drunk Moon striped down to his underpants and released the brakes on a parked Lincoln Continental and drove it straight into the hotel's pool with him inside. Following the incident, The Who were banned from all Holliday Inn properties for life and had to pay for damages that amounted to $24,000 or $50,00 as legend has it.

From an interview with 'Rolling Stones' 1972, this is how Keith recalls the wild moment:

"I ran out, jumped into the first car I came to, which was a brand new Lincoln Continental. It was parked on a slight hill and when I took the hand brake off, it started to roll and it smashed straight through this pool fence and the 'Ole Lincoln Continental went into the 'Oliday Inn swimming pool, with me in it. Ah-Ah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!"

KEITH AND HOTEL TV'S

I'm banned everywhere. With my record I'm not surprised. That's why I have to buy me own hotels. Even I ban me. I won't allow me-self to stay at me own hotels. Ha-ha-ha-ha.

Dougal Butler once quoted that as he was driving Moon to the airport, Moon asked him to turn around and drive back to the hotel because he forgot something. Upon arriving at the hotel, he ran to his room, took the hotel's TV and threw it out of his window into the swimming pool. He got back into the car and sigh 'I almost forgot'

In a December 1972 Rolling Stones Interview, Keith replied on his hotel room destruction myth:

"Lots. Yes. I get bored, you see. There was a time in Saskatoon, in Canada. It was another Holiday Inn and I was bored. Now, when I get bored, I rebel. I said, "Fuck it, fuck the lot of ya!" And I took out me hatchet and chopped the hotel room to bits. The television. The chairs. The dresser. The cupboard doors. The bed. The lot of it. It happens all the time."

THE SMOTHERS BROTHER COMEDY SHOW: MY NAME IS KEITH BUT YOU CAN CALL ME JOHN

The Who appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Show in 1967 and this would serve as the most defining moment of the show ultimately securing Who's number 10 ranking in the '100 Greatest Rock n Roll Moments On Television'. By this time, The Who were already famously known for the mild explosion in their shows through an explosive that was placed in Keith Moon's drum kits to create a light pyrotechnic effect. Unbeknown to them, Keith Moon had bribed a stage staff to insert 10 times the usual amount of explosive into the kits and when Keith proceeded to detonate it, the explosion was so loud and intense that it injured Keith, set Pete's hair on fire and affected his hearing (the beginning of Pete's Tinnitus) with Tommy Smothers appearing shocked in the background. Watch the clip, you will see Keith Moon lying flat on the floor after the explosion and Townshend hair engulfed with smoke.

THE LONGEST 'FILL IN' DRUMMER IN THE WORLD

Keith was a high school drop out who became a rock star god too early in his life as the Who started to gain mainstream popularity and megastar stardom. He managed to provide quite an impact on the rest of WHO's member when he took the drums in his ginger hair and ginger clothes to show off his skills at one of WHO's gigs. He was immediately accepted as the drummer of the band. Quite funnily so, when asked by BEATLE's Ringo Star how he managed to drum with the WHO, he replied that he was just filling in for the drummers position for the last 15 years. He was quite the story teller.

Even when Moon was known to own a few fancy and expensive cars, stories has been told that he drove a tractor to all the local bars where he used to drink.

ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT MATE? - KEITH MOON K-HOLES!

Keith Moon passes out on stage on his drums at one of WHO's concert after taking a whole lot of horse tranquillisers.
(John said this wasn't true someone spiked his bottle and since there was no ginger he refused to drink it so Keith drank it and passed out mid show...can you imagine if John drank it?! WHAT KIND OF SICK BASTARD SPIKES SOMEONES DRINK?!)

RIPLEY'S CANT BELIVE IT: ELVIS MAY HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING BUT KEITH MOON IS JUST ABOUT TO MAKE AN ENTRANCE - THROUGH THE CEILING

If there was one man in the industry who knew how to make a grand entrance, it got to be Keith Moon. While the band members of Who waited for Moon to start their performance at the VAlley, London, witness recalls that suddenly there was a loud crash and bang! - Keith Moon had just dropped from the ceiling smashing his way through a pointed and barbed iron roof to land himself flat on the stage. No one could ever replicate that! No one!

ROCK N ROLL'S PREMIER HELL RAISER

On one occasion, The Who guitarist, Pete Townshend came back to the hotel room to find that the toilet has disappeared with just an S band left to proof that once-upon-a-time, there was a toilet in that place before Keith Moon came along. Moon blew the toilet using 500 cherry bombs.

"And of course from that moment on, we got thrown out of every hotel we ever stayed in'" recalled Townshend

NUDE MOON MOON-WALKING, SAYS'S MICK JAGGER'S WIFE

On the night of Mick Jagger's (Rolling Stones) and Bianca's wedding reception, Bianca retired early to their room only to wake up hours later and find Keith Moon roaming through her sixth-floor window wearing nothing but a pair of novelty glasses whose eyeballs bounced around in front of him on springs while spotting a pair of women's brief on his head.

THE KEITH AND GIN STORY

The late Graham Chapman recalls meeting Keith Moon at his hotel suite. Chapman was a gin drinker and there was no gin in the room so Moon called the front desk and requested for a bottle of Gin to be brought up to the room for his friend. After 15 minutes, the gin still hadn't arrive and Keith once again called the front desk and said, If the gin does not arrive in another 10 minutes, the TV will arrive in the swimming pool. About 10 minutes after that Chapman noticed that Keith has gone missing and the window of the room was wide open. He went to the window to see if Keith had jumped out but there was nothing below the 13 or 14th floor window. There was a tiny balcony outside but not the kind that someone would be lounging at. He proceeded to wait for Moon as panic started to settle in. A moment later, Moon climbs down from the window holding a gin bottle in his hand. He had just broken into the room next door to grab a gin for his friend. Such an amusing character and such a good friend he was.

KEITH MOON: 'ANG' ON, MATE, I CAN'T GO FAST ON THESE LEGS'

Keith goes on telling Rolling Stone in a 1972 interview that he was late for an interview that was scheduled at 3 and it was only at 4 that he started out. Knowing that the band members would be angry at him, he called them and said that he'd been run over a bus on Oxford Street. He then bought some bandages and walking sticks and came limping to the office and while they all agreed to cancel the interview, Moon persisted that they should carry on.

"So they carried me down the stairs and we're walking along, I'm hobbling along the street again and this bloody lorry comes along as I'm crossing the street and it screams to a halt in front of me. I say, "'ang on, mate, I can't go fast on these legs," and Pete has a go at the lorry driver: "You 'eart-less bastard, can't you see this man's injured! 'ave you no 'eart, 'ave you no soul, you bastard! Trying to run over a cripple!"

ALICE COOPER: MY 18-YEARS-OLD WIFE AND MY FRENCH MAID - KEITH

According to Alice Cooper, he has just recently got married to his wife when Keith Moon came over to his house. Keith Moon proceeded to stay at the newly wed still in the honey moon period couple's house for a week. One day, Cooper and his 18-years-old wife came back home to find Keith wearing a French maid corset and dusting Cooper's place while trying to imitate a French ascent.

KEITH AND BUTLER GOES TO PACIFIC OCEAN ON A HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE

Peter Dougal Butler was Keith's PA and one who was always with him even through his rabid stunts. Butler recalls going to a 21st birthday party of a well known family in America -a party to celebrated their sons birthday. "It was crazy party because they had hot air balloons and coke flying around and going around one table to another. The next thing we know, Keith and I ended up in one of the hot balloon's floating somewhere in the mid of the dark Pacific Ocean."

KEITH MOON AND HIS NEW FRIEND, MISS GLUE

Keith Moon's hotel stories are pretty timeless, from blowing up to thrashing, Keith has used his imaginary interior designing degree to a good use. But things were about to change because he just discovered the power of glue. He was once again asked to leave the hotel when the manager arrived to his room only to find that Keith Moon has glued and plastered all the furnitures to the ceiling. Ripley's believe or not? You better believe it.

THE QUEEN OF MOON VS KEITH ADOLF MOON HITELR WHO

Being the expressionist that he was, Keith often rented suits and would wear it all day even when he went out. Alice Cooper remembers him wearing a French maid corset, Adolf's Kampfzeit uniform and The Queen Of England's gowns or dresses. Butler later noted that Keith rented a police man suit complete with a handgun, which he planned to wear during The Who's gig later that night. But both of them got caught by a security at the hotel who insisted Keith to take the uniform off. He however manage to get to the show and the whole uniform thing was a hit.

HOLE IN THE HOTEL ROOM : KEITH MOON OR RATS?

Alice Cooper recalls that "one night Keith wanted to borrow Pete Townshend's record player but he didn't want to wake him up because it was late. Even when Townshend was staying in the next room, Moon proceeded in making a hole on the wall and entered Townshend's room and as he came back, he sigh 'I got the wrong one'. The hotel manager arrived at the room and was astonished to see a hole had been cut through to the next room. He asked Moon, what was that? Moon replied, 'Oh, Rats, huge rats'. He told the hotel manager that he wasn't going to pay his bills till they catch the rats. The hotel manager told Moon that he had to pay for the damages and Moon asked how much would that be? Upon hearing the figure he said; with that kind of money, might as well destroy the whole room. He even invited the manager to help him in breaking the furnitures, which the manager did."

REMEMBERING KEITH MOON

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room." - Pete Townshend

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I'm am not here to talk about all the things that Keith did during his time, I am here to talk about the man I have loved - Ringo Star, The Beatles

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"John (Bonham) had been so impressed when he saw The Who's drummer, a young Keith Moon, for the first time on TV, that he began to experiment with fashion." - Mick Bonham, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin's brother.

KEITH MOON'S QUOTES

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world. I can't believe that person on the television is really me. The Keith Moon the public knows is a myth, even if I have created him. The real me is the person who sits at home having a cup of tea with his old lady, Annette.

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The hotel smashing is one way I get relief from the public image. I have no temper. I do it in a spirit of amusement rather than anger. When I've done damage to a friend's house I come back sheepishly the next day and offer to put things right, which means I'm willing to foot the bill.

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You know, if I ever stopped laughing inside and quit believing in people then I would get very hurt and totally disillusioned. You have to treat everything - even if at that time it seems like a right bummer - as a good experience. There are things that have happened to me that have made me wonder where I went wrong . . . things of a personal nature, like my relationship with my wife. They're the things that make you think most, because one is far more deeply involved.

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I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh. I think this comes across in my drumming. I watch a lot of The Marx Brothers' movies and they were doing the same sort of things. You've seen the way Chico Marx plays the piano with that certain flair . . . adding something to the music while taking liberties within his own capabilities? It's a question of taking somebody else's music but not sending it up in a derogative sense, just injecting your own personality. Pete's music allows me to do this.

[I got this from my old account so you know I'm not stealing it lol]

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