Keith Moon played drums with the same hyper-kinetic intensity that he lived his life: frenetic to the point where chaos could erupt around him at any given moment. When it comes to the excess and antics of rock ’n’ roll, Keith Moon didn’t just partake, he wrote the playbook.
Sadly, Moon died on this day in 1978, taken far too early his 200mph lifestyle having taken its toll. Keith packed more into his 32 years than most people could manage in a couple of lifetimes, cruelly losing his life to an overdose of prescription pills designed to help alleviate the alcohol withdrawal he was experiencing while attempting to get sober.
