Tag: Keith Moon
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40 Years Ago Today: Keith Moon Replaced By Fan From Crowd
Forty years ago today The Who played perhaps their most infamous show… On the 20th November 1973 The Who were playing the Cow Palace, a charmingly named venue near San Francisco in support of their Quadrophenia album. In the audience that evening was nineteen year old Scot Halpin who had just moved to San Francisco…
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Bieber Meltdown Latest: He’s Not The First Pop Star This Has Happened To…
Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player had a handy quote for anyone who wanted to enter the music business and who asked his advice: “Study law. Buy a gun…” Not a stun gun though, presumably. What with Rhianna allegedly “romping with £5,000 strippers” (I say allegedly – it must be true – I…
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Rock Star Quotes Quiz
Rock Star Quotes can be fun to look back on… OK, so Christmas is over, but perhaps you have some time off, and there’s a quiet morning stretching ahead of you. Or maybe you are sitting through the Christmas special of Downton Abbey and wondering why your own aged relatives’ attempts at humour are never…
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Keith Moon “lined up for the Olympics”
There’s a great story reported by RollingStone.com that says the London Olympic Committee has approached Keith Moon’s agent to see if the drummer would like to take part in the summer’s festivities? It is of course refreshing that the Olympic Committee is not being ageist, and is prepared to overlook Moon’s past bad behaviour at…
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