Keith Moon remains one of the best drummers of all time and for good reason. The sheer force with which he played has inspired generations of drummers. In fact, he reportedly helped inspire the creation of one of the most popular Muppets: Animal, the drummer for Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
As entertaining as he was on stage, he was somehow more unhinged off stage. He might be one of the funniest characters in rock history and the most destructive, especially when it came to hotel rooms.
However, Roger Daltrey claimed in an interview from October 2019 that hotel managers loved when Moon and The Who trashed hotel rooms. Why? The band would pay for the damage in cash, and then the hotel would claim the damage on their insurance. Daltrey said of one hotel in New York, ” … swear to you I reckon that Keith Moon decorated every room in that hotel because he smashed one, we’d pay in cash, the manager would claim the insurance … When we came back, the manager would go ‘Ah Mr Moon,’ and he would be put in the worst hotel room that needed decorating each time, and we paid for it.”
From hotel shenanigans to on-stage antics and everywhere in between, celebrate the life of Keith Moon by watching these funny videos. You know he’d appreciate people having a laugh in his honor.
