* 1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer ( The Who and Plastic Ono Band ) ( d. 1978 )

* 2008 – Scot Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for The Who ( b. 1954 )

Keith John Moon ( 23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978 ) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who.

At age 17, Moon joined The Who as a replacement for drummer Doug Sandom.

The Who allegedly dropped Sandom after being told they needed a better drummer to get a recording contract.

* After Moon's death, Small Faces / Faces drummer Kenney Jones became an official member of The Who.

* 1945 – Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer ( The Guess Who and Bachman – Turner Overdrive )

* 1948 – Kenney Jones, English drummer ( The Small Faces, Faces, The Who, The Law, and The Jones Gang )

* August 23 – Keith Moon, English rock drummer ( The Who ) ( d. 1978 )

* September 7 – Keith Moon, English drummer ( The Who ) ( b. 1946 )

The composers, backed by a small brass section and a live drummer, performed a large number of their BBC-commissioned musical works including sections of incidental music from The Hitch Hikers ' Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who ( including a medley of Mark Ayres's work ) as well as some collaborative compositions written specifically for the Roundhouse concert.

* Garry Peterson, longtime drummer of the Guess Who

* Keith Moon, musician ( drummer for The Who )

* Keith Moon, drummer with The Who, lived on Old Park Ridings

Townshend's solo breakthrough, following the death of Who drummer Keith Moon, was the 1980 release Empty Glass, which included a top-10 single, " Let My Love Open the Door ".

Some of those press members turned on him in the 1980s as the punk rock revolution led to widespread dismissal of the old guard of rock, Townshend attacked two of them, Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons, in the song " Jools And Jim " on his album Empty Glass after they made some derogatory remarks about Who drummer Keith Moon.

The other members of the Who expelled Daltrey from the band in late 1965 after he beat up drummer Keith Moon for supplying drugs to Townshend and Entwistle, causing him to re-examine his methods of dealing with people.

The Who went on after the death of Keith Moon in 1978, but tension continued as Daltrey felt new drummer Kenney Jones was the wrong choice for the Who.

* September 7 – Keith Moon, 32, drummer of The Who ( drug overdose )

* May 2 – The Who play their first concert following the death of drummer Keith Moon.

Kenney Jones became the drummer of The Who after Keith Moon's death in 1978 and continued to work with The Who through the late 1980s.

No groups that performed at the original Woodstock festival took the stage at Woodstock 1999, although John Entwistle of The Who performed a solo set, and Mickey Hart, drummer of the Grateful Dead, played with his band Planet Drum.

Goodnight Keith Moon, written by Bruce Worden and Clare Cross, is a parody based on the death of The Who drummer, Keith Moon.

Among Chapman's closest friends were Keith Moon of The Who, singer Harry Nilsson, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, and The Beatles ' Ringo Starr.

In later years, musician Nick Harper was asked about his childhood memories spent around The Who ; his first recollection was, " I remember Keith blowing up the toilets.

Various members of ( Herman's Hermits and The Who ) launched themselves on Keith, pinned him to the floor and successfully pulled his trousers down ... As the teenage girls began gasping and giggling and the cops started grunting their disapproval, Keith, naked from the waist down, made a good-natured dash for it out of the room ... and smashed one of his front teeth out ".

Pop musicians such as Steve Marriott of The Small Faces and Keith Moon of The Who were self-described " ravers ".

Marr's other favourite guitarists are James Williamson of The Stooges, Pete Townshend of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Keith Richards and John McGeoch of Magazine and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

* Acton was the birthplace of The Who, of which all members except Keith Moon went to Acton High School ( then named Acton County Grammar School ).

Who then passed it on to his two sons Dave and Keith.

While at times performing in a similar way to Keith Moon from The Who, Baker also employs a more restrained style influenced by the British jazz groups he heard during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Jones joined The Who after the death of Keith Moon ; McLagan stated in a summer 2004 interview with reporter Scott Smith of the Times Record in Fort Smith, Arkansas, that Townshend also asked McLagan to join The Who, but McLagan had already promised Keith Richards that he would tour as a Rolling Stones sideman.

Moon joined The Who in 1964.

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

The Who song " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( from Tommy ) was credited to Moon, who suggested the action should take place in a holiday camp.

Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight ", in which the B-side of the single is a cover song from The Who: " So Sad About Us ", and the back cover of the record is a photo of Moon's face ; the Jam's record was released about a month after Moon's death.

On one occasion, a hotel manager called Moon in his room and asked him to lower the volume on his cassette music player ; the manager said The Who were making " too much noise.

" Moon then turned the cassette player back on and proclaimed, " This is The Who.

According to the book, The Who In Their Own Words, Moon said he broke his tooth driving the car into the pool.

However, after the Flint party, the company permanently banned Moon and the rest of The Who from all their hotel properties.

Nonetheless, Entwistle maintained that Moon and The Who reached their prime live peak during 1975 and 1976.

Moon also played timpani on another track, the Jerome Kern classic, " Ol ' Man River " ( Moon was credited on the back of the album as " You Know Who ").

In the 2007 film documentary Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, Daltrey and Townshend state that Moon had a real talent for dressing up as a variety of various characters and embodying them.

Moon died shortly after the release of Who Are You.

* The London 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted The Who manager Bill Curbishley about Moon performing at the games, 34 years after his death.

* The Doctor Who novel Imperial Moon takes place in this year.