September 7, 1978. The day Keith Moon of The Who died of a sedative overdose

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2023-09-07 01:05:00

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TO LISTEN. Throughout his career, the Who drummer has taken enough drugs to keep a squadron of elephants high.

By Frédéric Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos

Published on 09/07/2019 at 01:05 – Modified on 09/07/2023 at 01:05

God knows if the rock stars of the sixties knew how to have fun. Keith Richards was walking around with a gun. Alice Cooper guillotined dolls on stage. Ozzy Osbourne cut off the heads of birds and bats with his teeth. But Keith Moon, the drummer of The Who, beat them all: he loved to explode toilet bowls in palaces with dynamite. It’s so funny, so English. Also, the day of his death by overdose, September 7, 1978, all the hotel managers popped their champagne corks. This madman will no longer throw sticks of dynamite in the toilets of their suites.

This fad takes Moon the day he buys a box of “cherry bombs” used in fireworks for fun. In his Memoirsthe musicians…

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