When Keith Moon first sat in with The Who, as a 17-year-old, he played one song, ended up breaking half the drum kit in doing so, and was immediately offered the gig.
When The Who played My Generation on The Smothers Brothers Show, he secretly planted explosives in his drum kit, and blew it up on live TV.
August 23, 2021 marked the 75th anniversary of the birth of the great madcap mischief-and-mayhem-making Moon. CKUA’s Lionel Rault saw The Who live, on their first-ever North American tour and below, he recalls that experience and reflects upon the iconic drums ‘n’ dynamite aficionado.