He was noted for his unique style and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour. “It became a problem.” She adds: “Because I’ve had my own struggles with alcohol I understand the Jekyll and Hyde thing. Alternatively send a cheque or postal order to: Keith Moon Offer, PO Box 200, Falmouth TR11 4WJ or visit expressbookshop.co.ukMandy, now 50, and a horse therapist based in Altadena, just outside Los Angeles, is in the UK to promote There Is No Substitute, a glossy coffee table book that seeks to shift the emphasis in the coverage of the drummer’s life “from the outrage to the instrument”Within a year Kim was pregnant with Mandy and the couple got married four months before the birth in July 1966. Her parents got together in 1965 after meeting at a disco in Bournemouth where Kim, then 16, was working as a hairdresser and dabbling in modelling. Both Moon and Entwistle subsequently took credit for the name. “The unusual roof emphasised post-war abstractism as opposed to art deco simplicity,” wrote one critic.
I didn’t inherit the drumming talent and – not that drinking is a talent – I did inherit that and the Jekyll and Hyde switch. “Thank God Uncle Pete helped me out,” McLagan said later. “Keith was a very unhappy man at that time.”But none of them has quite the same perspective on the frenzied life of the music legend as Mandy herself.
“People would come to deliver a pizza or do a mural and be there four weeks,” Richard Barnes, one of the band’s biographers, once said.Moon, who never practised between tours or outside the studio, didn’t even keep a drum kit at home. He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1982, becoming only the second rock drummer to be chosen, and in 2011, Moon was voted the second-greatest drummer in history by a Rolling Stone readers' poll.Overdose of the drug Herminevrin, prescribed to help relieve the symptoms of alcoholism.Moonie, Moon The Loon, Uncle ErnieWe would like to express to you our deepest thanks for your contribution.Rock, art rock, hard rock, power pop Later when this didn't materialize, and with Cole leaving their employ and going to work with Jimmy Page, the name was indeed used by Page to name the New Yardbirds. Keith Moon’s daughter never was much for the celebrity world of which she has brief memories, before her father died when she was 12. The revolving door of celebrities and their hangers-on that came to Tara often carried on turning round the clock and the guest list was not always particularly exclusive. “I really think she had,” says Mandy. We’d have to get dressed up and we’d all be together which was nice because that wasn’t always the case.“Strangely enough, at her memorial my stepdad did say that Keith was the love of her life which was a bit weird. On one occasion in the late 1960s Keith threw a champagne bottle at his wife during one of many fights at the London flat they shared.Devastated by Kim’s departure, Moon resorted to desperate measures, paying a hired thug £200 – about £2,200 in today’s money – to break McLagan’s fingers.“So I know that was not how he was all the time and that wasn’t the true him. It is not hard to see why. He was noted for his unique style and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour. She always loved him and when he died it was very hard on her. In typical Moon fashion, instead of removing the bottle and calling in the plasterers, he put a frame around it.So had she come to terms with her split from Moon by the time of her death? Personal life On March 17, 1966, Keith married his pregnant friend Kim Kerrigan. The roof of the four-bedroom bungalow featured five pyramids, one on each corner plus one in the centre over a large sunken lounge. It was a love match from the start. “But Mac wasn’t having that! I think Mac was jealous and he didn’t want any contact.”The domestics escalated after the Moons moved to Tara. In 1994 the family moved from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas, from where McLagan continued to tour the world playing gigs with his own Bump Band, as well as other outfits, and Kim set up a skincare business.Tragedy struck 10 years ago when Kim, 57, was hit by a truck after running a stop sign and died at the scene.Not that Mandy, who was naturally protective of her mother, had any particular desire to see her father at the time. She just couldn’t live with him the way he became when he was drinking and everything.But life at home could be equally dramatic. Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer who played with the English rock band the Who. I would develop a personality that was not my own, that was not a nice one and so yes it was best if I stopped.