Keith moom5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Moon, who never practised between tours or outside the studio, didn’t even keep a drum kit at home. Things would calm down on the home front when Keith was away playing gigs but there was a long break between the end of The Who’s 1972 European tour and the beginning of the studio sessions to record the band’s Quadrophenia album. Moon, who had forced Kim to give up her modelling career, could be violent in drink and on at least one occasion chased her round the house with a loaded shotgun. ![]() The domestics escalated after the Moons moved to Tara. In typical Moon fashion, instead of removing the bottle and calling in the plasterers, he put a frame around it. The bottle was thrown with such force that it got embedded in the wall. 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. But despite their deep bond, it was always a tumultuous relationship. Within a year Kim was pregnant with Mandy and the couple got married four months before the birth in July 1966. Moon – two years older – was bewitched by her beauty inside and out, and she was seduced by his charm, wit and charisma. 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. The book, which takes its title from the words on Moon’s plaque at Golders Green Crematorium, features tributes from a wide range of fellow musicians including The Who’s guitarist Pete Townshend, and drummers such as Clem Burke (Blondie), Don Powell (Slade), “Legs” Larry Smith (The Bonzo Dog Doo?Dah Band), and John Coghlan (Status Quo).īut none of them has quite the same perspective on the frenzied life of the music legend as Mandy herself. Mandy, 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” Another time he put a big “H” out on the lawn for a helicopter to land.” “One time he rented a pony and he was riding around on that which I loved because I’d always wanted a pony.
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