Keith Moon of The Who performing in Atlanta, Georgia on November 24th. Rock and roll’s greatest drummer had passed away at the age of 32. The Who drummer was found dead in his home of an apparent overdose. The next afternoon, on September 7, 1978, Walter-Lax found him unresponsive in bed. He was the funniest man I've ever known, but he was also the saddest. The bluest Moon Evening Standard/Getty Images In a 2018 GQ interview, The Who's Roger Daltrey gave a bittersweet summation of Keith Moon: 'Keith lived his entire life as a fantasy. This final, highly-excessive dose would prove fatal. Sadly, that soul passed away at 32 years old. Side effects included forgetfulness and docile behaviour, possibly explaining his demeanour on Good Morning America. Throughout the next eight hours, Moon ingested cocaine, a bit of alcohol and over thirty tablets of Heminevrin - a drug that he had been prescribed to curb his alcohol cravings, which he had been heavily abusing. When Hartman asks, at 6:52, if the band will be together when they’re in their fifties, Keith fumbles through an answer that, in hindsight, is both heartbreakingly optimistic and ill-fated.Įxactly one month later, Keith Moon and girlfriend Annette Walter-Lax would attend a midnight screening in London of The Buddy Holly Story, hosted by Paul McCartney. On September 10 and 11, 1979, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle got on stage in New Jersey, looked behind them and, for the first time at an American gig, they didn’t see Keith Moon. Throughout the entire interview, Moon is unable to summon the wit and roguish charm that had once so effortlessly endeared him to the public.
Hartman’s attempts to spread his questions evenly between the two further reveals Keith to be a shell of his legendary self. It’s not a laddish, wink-at-the-camera moment instead, Moon sounds genuinely confused. “Quite, quite out of control,” Moon stutters. At 1:54, Hartman asks Keith if he feels that he’s in control of his life at all, to which Moon replies, “Certain days.” Sprawled on the couch in a red silk shirt, black dinner jacket and white pants, Moon looks like a washed-up lounge singer.
Moon and Pete Townshend are promoting their forthcoming new album, Who Are You and straight off the bat, it’s clear that Moon is under the influence of something.
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