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Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Jeff Beck and the chaotic session that sowed the seeds for Led Zeppelin
By Johnny Black published
In a small London studio, two Yardbirds, one member of The Who and a pair of passing session maestros united to record a spontaneous instrumental track. Things would never be the same again.

The 10 best Keith Moon performances, by Kenney Jones
By Henry Yates published
Kenney Jones replaced the irrepressible Keith Moon in The Who in 1978 – and these are performances by his predecessor he loves the most

"Roger punched me once, and I’m sure I asked for it": How The Who overcame internal strife and a drummer behaving like 'a Saudi prince' to make their most poignant album
By Rob Hughes published
By 1973 The Who were bored and angry – and Pete Townshend knew he had one last chance to hold the band together and unify them in the eyes of their fans

"My hair caught fire and my hearing was never the same again": Relive the explosive moment Keith Moon blew up his drums on live TV
By Fraser Lewry published
It's one of the most iconic clips in rock: The Who, The Smothers Brothers, and 10 times the permitted amount of gunpowder

"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
By Johnny Black published
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

"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
By Rob Hughes published
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

"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
By Fraser Lewry published
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"

The Who's Roger Daltrey offers update on Keith Moon biopic: "People like him are missed because life now is so f**king mediocre"
By Liz Scarlett published
The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has shared an update on his long-awaited Keith Moon biopic and reveals his ideas behind casting.
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