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Keith Moon: Over The Moon

Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, April 2008

MY FIRST experience of trying to interview Keith Moon in June '65 as a music journalist should have alerted me to the problems yet to come as Keith's press agent in The Seventies. For our first luncheon interview he failed to show at his local pub The Torch, just two hundred yards from his home in Wembley and phoned in to the grinning landlord who brought over a series of wild excuses to my table every hour on the hour for three hours...

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