{"id":30207,"date":"2024-08-23T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-23-1946-the-who-drummer-keith-moon-was-born\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:02:31","slug":"on-this-day-aug-23-1946-the-who-drummer-keith-moon-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-23-1946-the-who-drummer-keith-moon-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 23, 1946: The Who drummer Keith Moon was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-23\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 23, 1946 &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Future\u00a0<strong>The Who\u00a0<\/strong>drummer\u00a0<strong>Keith Moon\u00a0<\/strong>was born in North West London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Moon joined the band in 1964 before they recorded their first single and went on to play on eight of The Who\u2019s albums, with his last being 1978\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Who Are You<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Throughout his musical career, he was known for his destructive nature and turned trashing hotel rooms into an art.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He\u00a0dealt with\u00a0alcohol problems over the years and died in September 1978 from an overdose of a drug that was supposed to prevent alcohol withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Roger Daltrey\u00a0<\/strong>has been very vocal about his attempts to make a Keith Moon biopic. In February 2023, he revealed that he had finished the script for the movie, but since then no other details about the film have been revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 23, 1946 &#8230;\u00a0 Future\u00a0The Who\u00a0drummer\u00a0Keith Moon\u00a0was born in North West London. Moon joined the band in 1964 before they recorded their first single and went on to play on eight of The Who\u2019s albums, with his last being 1978\u2019s\u00a0Who Are You. Throughout his musical career, he<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-23-1946-the-who-drummer-keith-moon-was-born\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}