The Who Pt 1: Keith Moon, Rockstar Excess, and a Dead Chauffeur

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Keith Moon of the Who was the prototype for rock drummers, both onstage and off. His drumming was wholly unique. Like his bandmates' behavior, it was violent, and like his personality, it was electric. Everyone loved Keith Moon aka “Moon The Loon” and it seemed that people never tired of his always hilarious and sometimes violent, drunken hijinks until one fateful night when a crew of British skinheads took issue with the drummer’s rockstar excess. The results were disastrous. To see the complete list of contributors, visit ⁠disgracelandpod.com⁠ This episode was originally published on October 9, 2018. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (formerly Twitter) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Disgraceland.
0:03.1	If any of you are new to this podcast, here's what you guys can expect.
0:07.6	Award-winning stories about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly.
0:13.5	Disgrace land explores the intersection of music history in true crime in 30-minute-ish scripted in sound in sound designed episodes on subjects like Jerry Lee Lewis
0:23.5	getting away with murder, the Jay-Z nightclub stabbing, Kurt Cobain's death, the death
0:29.1	surrounding the assassination attempt on Bob Marley and so many more.
0:33.4	We launch a new scripted episode every Tuesday, bonus chat episodes every Thursday,
0:38.4	where you, the listener, get to interact with me, Jake Brennan, the host.
0:42.4	And on Fridays, we rewind a previously released episode from our archive of over 235 scripted
0:48.4	episodes on subjects like The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Snoop Dog, Amy Winehouse, Taylor Swift,
0:53.8	and too many to mention.
0:55.7	Hope you guys dig the show.
0:57.2	I hope you stick around and become part of the disco community, Rocka Rola.
1:03.3	Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, are insane.
1:21.9	He regularly destroyed his drum kits on stage. He trashed hotel rooms all over the world,
1:28.9	reportedly getting banned from the Holiday Inn chain for life. He supposedly drove a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool, or was it a Lincoln
1:35.4	Continental. His band, The Who, purveyors of Maximum R&B, at first led the rough-and-tumble high-fashioned
1:43.1	mod movement through the pubs of London,
1:45.5	before exploding onto the American scene as part of the British invasion.
1:50.5	Keith Moon was the prototype for rock drummers, both on and offstage.
1:55.3	His approach to drumming was wholly unique.
1:57.8	His stage presence was magnetic.
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