#Mandatoryapportionedgesture Those who are dear to the gods die young...
Keith John Moon (1946-1978) Drummer.
Drummer of The Who.
A life of eccentricity at all costs, probably afflicted by half a dozen psychiatric disorders, all traceable to bipolar syndromes or similar, obsessed with the renovation of hotel rooms through their prior destruction. Together with his counterpart from Led Zeppelin, he was barred from various hotel chains around the world due to his propensity for the aforementioned activities. Author of grisly, terrible pranks, completely gratuitous and oversized compared to any reality.
This is the man, or the semblance of a man, we would say.
The drummer, however, sits in the paradise of drummers, alongside John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Dennis Wilson, Tommy and Ritchie Ramone, Kenny Clarke, Tony Williams, and Philly Joe Jones.
Possessor of extraordinary technique, derived from decades-long listening to jazz, capable of executing incredibly fast and complicated fills, he is one of the pivotal figures in the transformation of beat into rock and then into hard rock.
Cause of death: An overdose of the drug, a hypnotic, prescribed to aid his fight against the alcoholism and drug addiction he had recently decided to tackle. After a party at McCartney's house, he went to bed and took triple or quadruple doses of the drug several times.
Burial place: London Cemetery, Golders Green Crematorium. The plaque on the niche bears the inscription "There is no substitute."
But he, too, was soon replaced.
Undignified, furthermore.
Keith Moon Drum Solo 1974 