{"id":30660,"date":"2024-10-21T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-21-1976-keith-moon-played-what-would-be-his-last-show-with-the-who\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:02:39","slug":"on-this-day-oct-21-1976-keith-moon-played-what-would-be-his-last-show-with-the-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-21-1976-keith-moon-played-what-would-be-his-last-show-with-the-who\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Oct. 21, 1976: Keith Moon played what would be his last show with The Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-21\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Oct. 21, 1976 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Who<\/strong> wrapped a North American tour at Toronto\u2019s Maple Leaf Gardens, which would turn out to be drummer <strong>Keith Moon<\/strong>\u2019s final concert with the band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u00a0took a break from touring following the end of the trek, with the band\u00a0noting that Moon\u2019s health had been so bad he wouldn\u2019t have been able to perform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Who returned to the studio in 1978 to record <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Who Are You<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which would wind up being Moon\u2019s last record with the group. He 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 later announced that they would go on following Moon\u2019s death and returned to the stage in May 1979 with a concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London. <strong>Kenney Jones<\/strong>, who had previously played with the <strong>Small Faces<\/strong> and <strong>Faces<\/strong>, took over behind the drum kit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Oct. 21, 1976 &#8230; The Who wrapped a North American tour at Toronto\u2019s Maple Leaf Gardens, which would turn out to be drummer Keith Moon\u2019s final concert with the band. The Who\u00a0took a break from touring following the end of the trek, with the band\u00a0noting that Moon\u2019s<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-21-1976-keith-moon-played-what-would-be-his-last-show-with-the-who\/\">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\/30660"}],"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=30660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}