“Because you’ve got to cast it completely from the eyes because Moon had extraordinary eyes.” As well as, we can only assume, a natural inclination to put dynamite in a drum kit. Songs like ‘Success Story’ and ‘Dreaming From the Waist’ from the album ‘The Who By Numbers’ mark his remarkable performance as a drummer. He was well-known for his distinctive playing style.
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He was the funniest man I've ever known, but he was also the saddest. The bluest Moon Evening Standard/Getty Images In a 2018 GQ interview, The Who's Roger Daltrey gave a bittersweet summation of Keith Moon: 'Keith lived his entire life as a fantasy. He left school by 15 and was in his first band, The Beachcombers this was around the summer of 1963.
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Moon grew up in Alperton, a suburb of Wembley, in Middlesex, and took up the drums during the early 1960s. He was noted for his unique style of playing and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour and addiction to drugs and alcohol. At the age of 12, he had joined the Sea Cadet Corp and was given his first musical instrument, the bugle. Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 2 7 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who. “It’s going to be very, very dependent on the actor and the actor’s eyes,” he explained in 2018. Keith Moon was a popular drummer of the British rock group The Who. Sadly, that soul passed away at 32 years old. Keith John Moon was born to working class parents in Wembley, London, England, on the 23rd August, 1946. Now, Daltrey just has one key requirement for the casting. Fast-forward a few years later to 2005, and Mike Myers was set to play Moon before the project fizzled out. The Real Me, mega-Who fans can tell you, has served as one of Daltrey’s passion projects the biopic was first announced in the very early aughts, with Daltrey keen on an Ally McBeal–era Robert Downey Jr.
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Further plot details are being kept under wraps, as well as whoever is cast as Moon, who died at the age of 32 in 1978. Variety reports that both Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are supporting the film as executive producers, which will follow Moon - the human embodiment of spontaneous combustion - during his ascent as one of the most famous drummers in rock history. All generations are excited that The Real Me, the long-gestating biopic about Who drummer Keith Moon, will begin shooting this summer after two decades in film purgatory.