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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

"In hindsight I had problems, but at the time I really enjoyed the chaos I was creating": The Pete Townshend song that savaged a pair of music writers

Written in response to two journalists who said it was good that Keith Moon was dead, it's one of rock’s most spiteful songs

Louder

"It was a fair fight that I got thrown out of the band for, because Moon came for me with a tambourine": When Roger Daltrey was fired from The Who at the worst possible time in 1965

"When they got on amphetamines the music just turned to a load of crap," reflected the singer

MusicRadar

The 10 best Keith Moon performances, by Kenney Jones

Kenney Jones replaced the irrepressible Keith Moon in The Who in 1978 – and these are performances by his predecessor he loves the most

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All the way to nowhere: The story of The Raspberries

John Lennon, Keith Moon and Kurt Cobain were fans. They influenced Kiss, Cheap Trick and Bruce Springsteen. So how come The Raspberries never quite made it?

Louder

"He's out cold. I think he's gone and eaten something he shouldn't have eaten": What happened the night a Who fan was pulled from the crowd to fill in for Keith Moon

In November 1973, 19-year-old Who fan Scott Halpin travelled to see the band play at San Francisco's Cow Palace. He ended up on stage

Louder

"If you could just bear with us, we’re going to go and revive our drummer by punching him in the stomach. He’s out cold...": 5 crazy Keith Moon moments

They didn’t call The Who’s drummer Moon The Loon for nothing…

MusicRadar

The Who’s Pete Townshend: How Keir Starmer confronted me about ‘child pornography’ on my computer

The guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about his 2003 arrest, his Seventies eco-meltdown rock opera, and how he feels about Rishi Sunak’s Tories

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"So there I was, sitting in the driver's seat of a Lincoln Continental, underwater": The night The Who’s Keith Moon drove his car into a swimming pool

Keith Moon celebrated his 21st birthday by taking one of his cars for a swim – or did he? Eyewitnesses explain what they saw – or think they saw

Louder

"The inebriation factor was endorsed by the hot tub, the bedroom with the chains, the S&M suite": How The Who's Keith Moon made rock's worst solo album

Two Sides Of The Moon cost $200,000 to record, but no amount of money could fix the real problem: it was an absolute mess

Louder

"Its sheer capacity for repelling the viewer is almost immeasurable": How Alice Cooper, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Mae West found themselves in one of the worst movies ever made

What happened when three members of celebrity drinking club The Hollywood Vampires ended up in a film that "affronts everything that human civilisation stands for"

Louder

Let it all out … why hitting drums is therapy in action

Research shows that drumming has benefits for teenagers with autism in terms of the brain, the body and attention levels, writes novelist, essayist and critic James Wood

The Guardian - UK

How Keith Moon-loving, kimono-wearing multi-instrumentalist Steel Beans became Tenacious D’s favourite new band

Jeremy DeBardi is Steel Beans' drummer, guitarist and singer... all at the same time. And Tenacious D love him so much they invited him on tour

Metal Hammer

I Can’t Ex-pane: Jeremy Clarkson shares clip of window cleaner drumming on his Premier Spirit of Lily Keith Moon kit

Clarkson's Farm just got a bit louder

MusicRadar

10 famous father/son drumming duos

The dads who raised successful sticksmen

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The Who’s Pete Townshend tells the story behind ‘Tommy,’ now reinvented at Chicago's Goodman Theatre

CHICAGO — In the beginning, there was no pinball wizard.

Louder

Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham

John Bonham’s drumming powered Led Zeppelin like the engine of a battleship, but his death in 1980 did for his band. This is his story

ABC News

Toowoomba cabbie James Royal's rock star past with Johnny Cash, The Who and Jerry Lee Lewis

Back in the 60s and 70s, Jim Nairn was known across much of Europe as James Royal — a blue-eyed soul-singing dynamo whose howl was his ticket to work with some of music's biggest stars.

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The Muppets Mayhem is out today, and here's everything we know about who the band members are based on

The Muppets Mayhem has arrived to Disney+, and we take a look at the real people and musicians the band members are based on.

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The 10 drummers that inspired Joey Jordison

Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison once shared the top 10 drummers who inspired his iconic style

Guitar World

The Lowlist: Blondie’s Parallel Lines – the album that defined New Wave

The rhythm section was "was totally out of whack". The producer was "like Adolf Hitler". But out of it all came an all-time classic.

Manchester Evening News

'Mafia offered me $30k': The rock and roll life of Salford's Harvey Lisberg

Herman's Hermits, Hurricane Higgins, 10CC and me

Louder

Alice Cooper's story about Kiss/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin projectile vomiting all over The Who is one for the ages

A 1970s drinking contest between Alice Cooper's band and The Who was always going to end in tears... and vomit

Metal Hammer

Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more

Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories

The Independent UK

Roger Daltrey says he’s finished the script for the Keith Moon documentary

The Who lead singer also shared details of the actor he has in mind to play Moon

The Guardian - UK

Rock’s best kept secret: Tony King on life with John Lennon, Elton John and Freddie Mercury

He held Mercury’s hand in hospital, retrieved Lennon from a cocaine escapade with David Bowie, and was upbraided by Keith Richards for smoking a joint. Now the Zelig of the music world is looking back

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