What
People Think: The original drummer for the
British band "The Who" before his tragically young death.
Reality: The original drummer for the British band "The Who." Also an extremely shitty human being.
Keith Moon was an incurable drug addict who may or may not have been mentally insane. He was a massive prankster, and he had an incredibly unhealthy obsession with explosives, destruction, and destruction involving explosives. Everywhere he went, he got himself and his fellow bandmates in big
trouble with his antics, to the point that they racked up a massive debt and almost went bankrupt.
During
one concert, he had to be replaced because he kept passing out, thanks to his drug abuse. On several other occasions, his insatiable desire for destruction got himself injured quite badly, and he had to be repeatedly "rescued" by his bandmates or whoever happened to find him, who were none too happy to help him, knowing that he
always invoked it upon himself. He ultimately died in 1978 at the age of
32, as a result of his incredibly self-destructive lifestyle. But when he died, his bandmates thought it was a prank; he was THAT much of a prankster. They didn't
even realize it was
legit until they went to his funeral and saw his mother weeping next to his coffin.
