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a l'amour and riccardo cocciante's 2007 giulietta & romeo. = = = literature and art = = = romeo and juliet had a profound influence on subsequent literature. before then, romance had not even been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. in harold bloom's words, shakespeare " invented the formula that the sexual becomes the erotic when crossed by the shadow of death ". of shakespeare's works, romeo and juliet has generated the most — and the most varied — adaptations, including prose and verse narratives, drama, opera, orchestral and choral music, ballet, film, television and painting. the
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, in their time, the highest @ - @ grossing shakespeare film ever. romeo and juliet was first filmed in the silent era, by georges melies, although his film is now lost. the play was first heard on film in the hollywood revue of 1929, in which john gilbert recited the balcony scene opposite norma shearer. shearer and leslie howard, with a combined age over 75, played the teenage lovers in george cukor's mgm 1936 film version. neither critics nor the public responded enthusiastically. cinemagoers considered the film too " arty ", staying away as they had from warner's a midsummer night dream a year
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before : leading to hollywood abandoning the bard for over a decade. renato castellani won the grand prix at the venice film festival for his 1954 film of romeo and juliet. his romeo, laurence harvey, was already an experienced screen actor. by contrast, susan shentall, as juliet, was a secretarial student who was discovered by the director in a london pub, and was cast for her " pale sweet skin and honey @ - @ blonde hair ". stephen orgel describes franco zeffirelli's 1968 romeo and juliet as being " full of beautiful young people, and the camera, and the lush technicolo
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or slower according to his mood. " he wouldn't play across his kit, " he later added. " he'd play zig @ - @ zag. that's why he had two sets of tom @ - @ toms. he'd move his arms forward like a skier. " daltrey said that moon " just instinctively put drum rolls in places that other people would never have thought of putting them. " who biographer john atkins wrote that the group's early test sessions for pye records in 1964 show that " they seemed to have understood just how important was... moon's contribution.
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" contemporary critics questioned his ability to keep time, with biographer tony fletcher suggesting that the timing on tommy was " all over the place. " who producer jon astley said, " you didn't think he was keeping time, but he was. " early recordings of moon's drumming sound tinny and disorganised ; it was not until the recording of who's next, with glyn johns'no @ - @ nonsense production techniques and the need to keep time to a synthesizer track, that he began developing more discipline in the studio. fletcher considers the drumming on this album to be the best of moon's career
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), " dogs part two " ( 1969 ), " tommy's holiday camp " ( 1969 ) and " waspman " ( 1972 ). moon also co @ - @ composed " the ox " ( an instrumental from their debut album, my generation ) with townshend, entwistle and keyboardist nicky hopkins. the setting for " tommy's holiday camp " ( from tommy ) was credited to moon ; the song was primarily written by townshend and, although there is a misconception that moon sings on it, the album version is townshend's demo. the drummer produced the violin solo on " baba o '
| 2,067 |
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riley. " moon sat in on congas with east of eden at the lyceum, and afterwards suggested to violinist dave arbus that he play on the track. moon played a four, then a five @ - @ piece drum kit during his early career. his 1965 set consisted of ludwig drums and zildjian cymbals. by 1966, feeling limited by this setup and inspired by ginger baker's double bass drum, he switched to a larger premier kit. this setup did not have a hi @ - @ hat, since moon used crash and ride cymbals instead. he remained a loyal customer of premier. moon
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| 1,758 |
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premier to make a white kit with gold @ - @ plated fittings. when haynes said that it would be prohibitively expensive, moon replied : " dear boy, do exactly as you feel it should be, but that's the way i want it. " the kit was eventually fitted with copper fittings and later given to a young zak starkey. = = = = destroying instruments and other stunts = = = = at an early show at the railway tavern in harrow, townshend smashed his guitar after accidentally breaking it. when the audience demanded he do it again, moon kicked over his drum kit. subsequent live sets culminated
| 2,221 |
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in what the band later described as " auto @ - @ destructive art, " in which band members ( particularly moon and townshend ) elaborately destroyed their equipment. moon developed a habit of kicking over his drums, claiming that he did so in exasperation at an audience's indifference. townshend later said, " a set of skins is about $ 300 [ then £ 96 ] and after every show he'd just go bang, bang, bang and then kick the whole thing over. " in may 1966, moon discovered that the beach boys'bruce johnston was visiting london. after the pair socialised for a few days,
| 2,081 |
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moon and entwistle brought johnston to the set of ready steady go!, which made them late for a show with the who that evening. during the finale of " my generation, " an altercation broke out on stage between moon and townshend which was reported on the front page of the new musical express the following week. moon and entwistle left the who for a week ( with moon hoping to join the animals or the nashville teens ), but they changed their minds and returned. on the who's early us package tour at the rko theatre in new york in march and april 1967 moon performed five shows a
| 2,081 |
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day, kicking over his drum kit after every show. later that year, during their appearance on the smothers brothers comedy hour, he bribed a stagehand to load gunpowder into one of his bass drums ; the stagehand used about ten times the standard amount. during the finale of " my generation, " he kicked the drum off the riser and set off the charge. the intensity of the explosion singed townshend's hair and embedded a piece of cymbal in moon's arm. a clip of the incident became the opening scene for the film the kids are alright. although moon was known for kicking over his
| 2,081 |
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drum kit, haynes claimed that it was done carefully and the kit rarely needed repairs. however, stands and foot pedals were frequently replaced ; the drummer " would go through them like a knife through butter. " while moon generally said he was only interested in working with the who, he participated in outside musical projects. in 1966 he worked with yardbirds guitarist jeff beck, pianist nicky hopkins and future led zeppelin members jimmy page and john paul jones on the instrumental " beck's bolero, " which was the b @ - @ side to " hi ho silver lining " and appeared on the album truth. moon also played timpani on
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leading to occasional collaborations. in 1967, he contributed backing vocals to " all you need is love. " on 15 december 1969, moon joined john lennon's plastic ono band for a live performance at the lyceum theatre in london for a unicef charity concert. in 1972 the performance was released as a companion disc to lennon and ono's album, some time in new york city. moon's friendship with entwistle led to an appearance on smash your head against the wall, entwistle's first solo album and the first by a member of the who. moon did not play drums on the album ; jerry
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shirley did, with moon providing percussion. rolling stone's john hoegel appreciated entwistle's decision not to let moon drum, saying that it distanced his album from the familiar sound of the who. moon became involved in solo work when he moved to los angeles during the mid @ - @ 1970s. in 1974, track records @ - @ mca released a moon solo single covering the beach boys'" don't worry, baby " and " teenage idol. " the next year he released his only solo album, entitled two sides of the moon. although it featured moon on vocals, he played drums on only three
| 2,886 |
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' s wide world ), moon played a five @ - @ minute drum solo dressed as a cat on transparent acrylic drums filled with water and goldfish. when asked by an audience member what would happen to the kit, he joked that " even the best drummers get hungry. " his performance was not appreciated by animal lovers, several of whom called the station with complaints. in the 2007 documentary film, amazing journey : the story of the who, daltrey and townshend reminisced about moon's talent for dressing as ( and embodying ) a variety of characters. they remembered his dream of getting out
| 2,083 |
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of music and becoming a hollywood film actor, although daltrey did not think moon had the patience and work ethic required by a professional actor. who manager bill curbishley agreed that moon " wasn't disciplined enough to actually turn up or commit to doing the stuff. " nevertheless, the drummer landed several acting roles. his first was in 1971, a cameo in frank zappa's 200 motels as a nun afraid of dying from a drug overdose. although it only took 13 days to film, fellow cast member howard kaylan remembers moon spending off @ - @ camera time at the kensington garden hotel bar instead of sleeping.
| 2,724 |
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moon's next film role was j. d. clover, drummer for the fictional stray cats at a holiday camp during the early days of british rock'n'roll, in 1973's that'll be the day. he reprised the role for the film's 1974 sequel, stardust, and played uncle ernie in ken russell's 1975 film adaptation of tommy. moon's last film appearance was in 1978's sextette with starr and alice cooper. this was the last film to star mae west. = = destructive behaviour = = moon led a destructive lifestyle. during the who's early days he began taking
| 2,067 |
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| 2,088 |
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go so far. like a train ride you couldn't stop. " in a limousine on the way to the airport moon insisted they return to their hotel, saying " i forgot something. " at the hotel he ran back to his room, grabbed the television and threw it out the window into the swimming pool below. he then jumped back into the limo, saying " i nearly forgot. " fletcher argues that the who's lengthy break between the end of their 1972 european tour and the beginning of the quadrophenia sessions devastated moon's health, as without the rigours of lengthy shows and regular touring that had previously kept him
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in shape, his hard @ - @ partying lifestyle took a greater toll on his body. he did not keep a drum kit or practice at tara, and began to deteriorate physically as a result of his lifestyle. around the same time he became a severe alcoholic, starting the day with drinks and changing from the " lovable boozer " he presented himself as to a " boorish drunk ". david puttnam recalled, " the drinking went from being a joke to being a problem. on that'll be the day it was social drinking. by the time stardust came round it was hard drinking. " = =
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= exploding toilets = = = moon's favourite stunt was to flush powerful explosives down toilets. according to fletcher, moon's toilet pyrotechnics began in 1965 when he purchased a case of 500 cherry bombs. he moved from cherry bombs to m @ - @ 80 fireworks to sticks of dynamite, which became his explosive of choice. " all that porcelain flying through the air was quite unforgettable, " moon remembered. " i never realised dynamite was so powerful. i'd been used to penny bangers before. " he quickly developed a reputation for destroying bathrooms and blowing up toilets. the destruction mesmeri
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##sed him, and enhanced his public image as rock's premier hell @ - @ raiser. tony fletcher wrote that " no toilet in a hotel or changing room was safe " until moon had exhausted his supply of explosives. pete townshend walked into the bathroom of moon's hotel room and noticed the toilet had disappeared, with only the s @ - @ bend remaining. the drummer explained that since a cherry bomb was about to explode, he had thrown it down the loo and showed townshend the case of cherry bombs. " and of course from that moment on, " the guitarist remembered, " we got thrown out of every hotel
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we ever stayed in. " entwistle recalled being close to moon on tour : " i suppose we were two of a kind "... we shared a room on the road and got up to no good. " consequently, both were often involved in blowing up toilets. in a 1981 los angeles times interview he admitted, " a lot of times when keith was blowing up toilets i was standing behind him with the matches. " in alabama, moon and entwistle loaded a toilet with cherry bombs after being denied room service. according to entwistle, " that toilet was just dust all over the walls by the
| 2,081 |
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time we checked out. the management brought our suitcases down to the gig and said :'don't come back...'" a hotel manager called moon in his room and asked him to lower the volume on his cassette recorder because it made " too much noise. " in response the drummer asked him up to his room, excused himself to go the bathroom, put a lit stick of dynamite in the toilet and shut the bathroom door. upon returning, he asked the manager to stay for a moment, as he wanted to explain something. following the explosion, moon turned the recorder back on and said, " that, dear boy
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, was noise. this is the'oo. " = = = flint holiday inn incident = = = on 23 august 1967, on tour opening for herman's hermits, moon celebrated what he said was his 21st birthday ( although it was thought at the time to be his 20th ) at a holiday inn in flint, michigan. entwistle later said, " he decided that if it was a publicised fact that it was his 21st birthday, he would be able to drink. " the drummer immediately began drinking upon his arrival in flint. the who spent the afternoon visiting local radio stations with nancy lewis ( then the band
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' s publicist ), and moon posed for a photo outside the hotel in front of a " happy birthday keith " sign put up by the hotel management. according to lewis, moon was drunk by the time the band went onstage at the atwood high school football stadium. returning to the hotel, moon started a food fight and soon cake began flying through the air. the drummer knocked out part of his front tooth ; at the hospital, doctors could not give him an anaesthetic ( due to his inebriation ) before removing the remainder of the tooth. back at the hotel a melee erupted ; fire extinguishers were set
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off, guests ( and objects ) thrown into the swimming pool and a piano reportedly destroyed. the chaos ended only when police arrived with guns drawn. a furious holiday inn management presented the groups with a bill for $ 24 @, @ 000, which was reportedly settled by herman's hermits tour manager edd mccann. townshend claimed that the who were banned for life from all of the hotel's properties, but fletcher wrote that they stayed at a holiday inn in rochester, new york a week later. he also disputed a widely held belief that moon drove a lincoln continental into the hotel's swimming pool, as claimed by the drummer
| 806 |
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in a 1972 rolling stone interview. moon's lifestyle began to undermine his health and reliability. during the 1973 quadrophenia tour, at the who's debut us date at the cow palace in daly city, california, moon ingested a mixture of tranquillisers and brandy. during the concert, moon passed out on his drum kit during " won't get fooled again. " the band stopped playing, and a group of roadies carried moon offstage. they gave him a shower and an injection of cortisone, sending him back onstage after a thirty @ - @ minute delay. moon passed out again during
| 2,081 |
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" magic bus, " and was again removed from the stage. the band continued without him for several songs before townshend asked, " can anyone play the drums? – i mean somebody good? " a drummer in the audience, scot halpin, came up and played the rest of the show. during the opening date of the band's march 1976 us tour at the boston garden, moon passed out over his drum kit after two numbers and the show was rescheduled. the next evening moon systematically destroyed everything in his hotel room, cut himself doing so and passed out. he was discovered by manager bill curbishley, who
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took him to a hospital, telling him " i'm gonna get the doctor to get you nice and fit, so you're back within two days. because i want to break your fucking jaw... you have fucked this band around so many times and i'm not having it any more. " doctors told curbishley that if he had not intervened, moon would have bled to death. marsh suggested that at this point daltrey and entwistle seriously considered firing moon, but decided that doing so would make his life worse. during the band's recording sabbatical from 1975 to 1978, moon gained
| 2,546 |
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a considerable amount of weight. entwistle has said that moon and the who reached their live peak in 1975 – 76. at the end of the 1976 us tour in miami that august, the drummer, delirious, was treated in hollywood memorial hospital for eight days. the group was concerned that he would be unable to complete the last leg of the tour, which ended at maple leaf gardens in toronto on 21 october ( moon's last public show ). by the time of the who's invitation @ - @ only show at the kilburn gaumont in december 1977 for the kids are alright, moon was visibly
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overweight and had difficulty sustaining a solid performance. after recording who are you, townshend refused to follow the album with a tour until moon stopped drinking, and said that if moon's playing did not improve he would be fired. daltrey later denied threatening to fire him, but said that by this time the drummer was out of control. = = = financial problems = = = because the who's early stage act relied on smashing instruments, and owing to moon's enthusiasm for damaging hotels, the group were in debt for much of the 1960s ; entwistle estimated they lost about £ 150 @, @ 000.
| 685 |
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even when the group became relatively financially stable after tommy, moon continued to rack up debts. he bought a number of cars and gadgets, and flirted with bankruptcy. moon's recklessness with money reduced his profit from the group's 1975 uk tour to £ 47 @. @ 35. = = personal life and relationships = = before the 1998 release of tony fletcher's dear boy : the life of keith moon, moon's date of birth was presumed to be 23 august 1947. this erroneous date appeared in several otherwise @ - @ reliable sources, including the townshend @ - @ authorised biography before i get old
| 134 |
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: the story of the who. the incorrect date had been supplied by moon in interviews before it was corrected by fletcher to 1946. moon's first serious relationship was with kim kerrigan, whom he started dating in january 1965 after she saw the who play at the disc a go go in bournemouth. by the end of the year, she discovered she was pregnant ; her parents, who were furious, met with the moons to discuss their options and she moved into the moon family home in wembley. they were married on 17 march 1966 at brent registry office, and their daughter amanda was born on 12 july. the marriage ( and child ) were
| 2,412 |
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kept secret from the press until may 1968. moon was occasionally violent towards kim : " if we went out after i had mandy, " she later said, " if someone talked to me, he'd lose it. we'd go home and he'd start a fight with me. " he loved amanda, but his absences due to touring and fondness for practical jokes made their relationship uneasy when she was very young. " he had no idea how to be a father, " kim said. " he was too much of a child himself. " from 1971 to 1975 moon owned tara, a home in chertsey where
| 2,082 |
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he initially lived with his wife and daughter. the moons entertained extravagantly at home, and owned a number of cars. jack mccullogh, then working for track records ( the who's label ), recalls moon ordering him to purchase a milk float to store in the garage at tara. in 1973 kim, convinced that neither she nor anyone else could moderate keith's behaviour, left her husband and took amanda ; she sued for divorce in 1975 and later married faces keyboard player ian mclagan. marsh believes that moon never truly recovered from the loss of his family. butler agrees ; despite his relationship with annette walter @ - @
| 2,539 |
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later said that moon was " so sweet when he was sober, that i was just living with him in the hope that he would kick all this craziness. " she begged malibu neighbour larry hagman to check moon into a clinic to dry out ( as he had attempted to do before ), but when doctors recorded moon's chemical intake at breakfast – a bottle of champagne, courvoisier and amphetamines – they concluded that there was no hope for his rehabilitation. moon enjoyed being the life of the party. bill curbishley remembered that " he wouldn't walk into any room and just listen. he
| 2,170 |
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was an attention seeker and he had to have it. " early in the who's career, moon got to know the beatles. he would join them at clubs, forming a particularly close friendship with ringo starr. moon later became friends with bonzo dog doo @ - @ dah band members vivian stanshall and " legs " larry smith, and the trio would drink and play practical jokes together. smith remembers one occasion where he and moon tore apart a pair of trousers, with an accomplice later looking for one @ - @ legged trousers. in the early 1970s moon helped stanshall with his " radio flashes " radio show
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for bbc radio 1, filling in for the vacationing john peel ( see rawlinson end radio flashes ). subsequently, in 1973, moon himself filled in for john peel in " a touch of the moon, " a series of four programmes produced by john walters. guitarist joe walsh enjoyed socialising with moon. in an interview with guitar world magazine, he recalled that the drummer " taught me how to break things. " in 1974, moon struck up a friendship with actor oliver reed while working on the film version of tommy. although reed matched moon drink for drink, he appeared on set the next morning ready to perform ; moon, on the
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prevalent at the time was bad for moon : " my job was to have eyes in the back of my head. " townshend agreed, saying that by 1975 butler had " no influence over him whatsoever. " although he was a loyal companion to moon, the lifestyle eventually became too much for him ; he phoned curbishley, saying that they needed to move back to england or one of them might die. butler quit in 1978, and later wrote of his experiences in a book entitled full moon : the amazing rock and roll life of keith moon ( 2012 ). on 4 january 1970 moon accidentally killed his friend, driver and bodyguard,
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neil boland, outside the red lion pub in hatfield, hertfordshire. pub patrons had begun to attack his bentley and moon, drunk, began driving to escape them. during the fracas, he hit boland. after an investigation, the coroner ruled boland's death an accident and moon received an absolute discharge after being charged with a number of offences. those close to moon said that he was haunted by boland's death for the rest of his life. according to pamela des barres, moon had nightmares ( which woke them both ) about the incident and said he had no right to be alive. in mid @ - @
| 444 |
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1978 moon moved into a flat in curzon place ( later curzon square ), shepherd market, mayfair, london, renting from harry nilsson. cass elliot had died there four years earlier, at the age of 32 ; nilsson was concerned about letting the flat to moon, believing it was cursed. townshend disagreed, assuring him that " lightning wouldn't strike the same place twice ". after moving in, moon began a prescribed course of heminevrin ( clomethiazole, a sedative ) to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. he wanted to get sober, but due to his fear of psychiatric
| 172 |
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hospitals he wanted to do it at home. clomethiazole is discouraged for unsupervised detoxification because of its addictive potential, its tendency to induce tolerance, and its risk of death when mixed with alcohol. the pills were prescribed by geoffrey dymond, a physician who was unaware of moon's lifestyle. dymond prescribed a bottle of 100 pills, instructing him to take one pill when he felt a craving for alcohol but not more than three pills per day. by september 1978 moon was having difficulty playing the drums, according to roadie dave " cy " langston. after seeing moon in
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the studio trying to overdub drums for the kids are alright, he said, " after two or three hours, he got more and more sluggish, he could barely hold a drum stick. " on 6 september moon and walter @ - @ lax were guests of paul and linda mccartney at a preview of the film, the buddy holly story. after dining with the mccartneys at peppermint park in covent garden, moon and walter @ - @ lax returned to their flat. he watched a film ( the abominable dr. phibes ), and asked walter @ - @ lax to cook him steak and eggs. when
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she objected, moon replied " if you don't like it, you can fuck off! " these were his last words. moon then took 32 clomethiazole tablets. when walter @ - @ lax checked on him the following afternoon, she discovered he was dead. curbishley phoned the flat at around 5 pm looking for moon, and dymond gave him the news. curbishley told townshend, who informed the rest of the band. entwistle was giving an interview to french journalists when he was interrupted by a phone call with the news of moon's death. trying to tactfully
| 2,304 |
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and quickly end the interview, he broke down and wept when the journalist asked him about the who's future plans. moon's death came shortly after the release of who are you. on the album cover, he is straddling a chair to hide his weight gain ; the words " not to be taken away " are on the back of the chair. police determined that there were 32 clomethiazole pills in moon's system. six were digested, sufficient to cause his death ; the other 26 were undigested when he died. max glatt, an authority on alcoholism, wrote in the sunday times
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that moon should never have been given the drug. moon was cremated on 13 september 1978 at golders green crematorium in london, and his ashes were scattered in its gardens of remembrance. townshend convinced daltrey and entwistle to carry on touring as the who, although he later said that it was his means of coping with moon's death and " completely irrational, bordering on insane ". allmusic's bruce eder said, " when keith moon died, the who carried on and were far more competent and reliable musically, but that wasn't what sold rock records. " in november 1978, faces drummer ken
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##ney jones joined the who. townshend later said that jones " was one of the few british drummers who could fill keith's shoes " ; daltrey was less enthusiastic, saying that jones " wasn't the right style ". keyboardist john " rabbit " bundrick, who had rehearsed with moon earlier in the year, joined the live band as an unofficial member. jones left the who in 1988, and drummer simon phillips ( who praised moon's ability to drum over the backing track of " baba o'riley " ) toured with the band the following year. since 1994, the who's drummer has been
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