The Who’s Pete Townshend describes the “shock” he felt upon studying of the loss of life of bandmate Keith Moon throughout Somebody Saved Me, the most recent entry in Audible’s Words + Music sequence.
“I believe by the point Keith died, the shock was that he was nicely; he was cured,” Townshend says in an unique excerpt, which you’ll be able to hear under. “He wasn’t ingesting. He wasn’t doing cocaine. He wasn’t sad. For 2 weeks previous to the day that he died, he known as me up each night time at 11:30 and mentioned, ‘Pete, I really like you, man. Sleep nicely.'”
Moon died on Sept. 7, 1978, on the age of 32 in a Mayfair, London, flat that he was renting from Harry Nilsson — the identical place Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Papas died 4 years earlier. The drummer had been making an attempt to curb his alcoholism and, in a merciless twist of irony, overdosed on a sedative meant to alleviate alcohol withdrawal signs.
“Keith, in fact, was actually making an attempt as arduous as he may to remain alive and never doing a very good job of it,” Townshend continues. “So it was an unbelievable shock as a result of I assumed he was OK. After which it turned out that he’d really overdosed on the very drugs that he’d been given to assist him keep away from convulsions, a drug known as Heminevrin, which is an anticonvulsant. Nevertheless, should you take 11 of them … .”
Townshend maintains that Moon’s loss of life was merely a results of his all-or-nothing character. “Keith was a kind of guys, if he mentioned to you, ‘I’ve obtained a headache. Have you ever obtained any aspirin?’ You’d say, ‘Yeah, certain, right here you might be, this is two.’ And he’d go, ‘Two?’ and take half a bottle,” Townshend says. “So it was most likely simply behavior, however that is what occurred.”
The guitarist additionally admits that he is a “codependent,” which he illustrates with an incisive quote from one in every of his buddies. “As my good friend Barney would say: ‘Keith died from choking on his personal vomit. Pete, what you have to be careful for is dying choking on another person’s vomit.'”
Any person Saved Me may be heard on Audible now. The Who, in the meantime, are on the Who Hits Again! tour via November.
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