“After half an hour Moonie says ‘I’m going to take a leak,’ and goes off and I’m left on my own. Fortunately one of the girls working in the foyer recognises him and suddenly it’s all ‘big celebrity’ and out of nowhere a table and chair and a bucket of champagne arrives. We go to the door and there’s this guy dressed up as a mounted policeman, and Keith is going, ‘I’m Keith Moon of the Who,’ and the guy is saying, ‘ooo?’ and they don’t recognise him and everything is lost in the translation. Once, somewhere late at night we ended up at the Crazy Horse saloon. That's why there are so many casualties in our business." Then you need the uppers to put you right back up there in time for the next one. It's so intense, the temptation to take something to maintain the balance is huge, You take the downers to bring you out of the clouds after a show. "I was the one that didn't take the acid," he said. He previously spoke about the incident with Moon in an interview with The Mirror, where he said he had to be clean living "to keep the others in line". They wanted to be free and I was spoiling that." From their point of view it was an intrusion on how they wanted to live their lives. "Rock'n'roll had become all about taking as many drugs as possible until you died," he writes, via The Times. However, he was reinstated after the remaining members were booed off stage" when they performed without him.ĭaltrey says he constantly fought with his bandmates Moon, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, most typically over their drug use, including one fight which got him kicked out of the band in 1966. The singer, who has released his new memoir Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite, revealed he was thought of as "the enemy" due to his clean-living behaviour in comparison to other members of the notoriously hedonistic rock band.Īfter flushing Moon's "great big bag full of pills" down the lavatory, Moon apparently "came slashing at me with the bells of a tambourine". The following day, Daltrey was fired from the band. Keith Moon attacked Roger Daltrey with tambourine after flushing The Who drummer's pills down toilet -The frontman claims he was thought of as 'the enemy' due to his clean-living behaviour. We brought it back in 2002 for the last tour with John Entwistle, and we rehearsed it, we were going to do it in the show, then John died.”ĭaltrey feels like there is a curse attached to ‘Music Must Change’, and for the sake of his and Pete Townshend’s health, The Who will never perform it again. The singer painfully continued: “We played the song when we got back together with Kenny Jones as drummer, and then we dropped it for a long, long time. You May Also Like "The Who: we start on charity because of Keith Moon"įor Daltrey, the song is a reminder of that painful time close to Keith’s death, and he also feels regretful about recruting another drummer, which must have been humiliating for Moon. Anyway, Keith is not on that recording on the record, and straight after we made that record, he died.” Daltrey revealed: “He just couldn’t do that, so he had to do it with a pair of squeaky boots walking the pavement and do a squeaky walk to do the rhythm. They tried everything with Moon to help him learn the track, including one extremely unconventional method, but that was also to no avail. Keith could play great Moon drums, and that was it.” Every time we played that in the studio, Keith couldn’t play the drums to it. There’s a song on the Who Are You album, it’s called ‘Music Must Change’. “There is one, and I won’t ever play it again. In 2015, the vocalist appeared on Howard Stern’s programme on Sirius XM and opened up about the negative feelings he holds towards the Who Are You cut. Despite his best efforts, they were forced to recruit a session musician to play the drums on the final recording, which Daltrey regrets. On the LP is one song titled ‘Music Must Change’ which Moon just couldn’t get his head around. The final album that the band recorded before his tragic passing was the 1978 release, Who Are You. One particular track reminds the singer of this time and brings back some memories that he’d rather forget. His declining health took a toll on his relationship with his bandmates, and Daltrey felt helpless. Keith Moon’s final days were not just difficult for him, but they were challenging for his family and friends too. The Who have an almost unlimited wealth of choice when it comes to selecting the material for their live sets, but there’s one song that Roger Daltrey refuses to sing, and his explanation makes perfect sense.
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