“Face Dances” released in 1981 and “It’s Hard” released in 1982. That did not change very much in their later albums, not as far as I could tell.Īlso, before I was born, The Who released two more albums with Kenny Jones on drums. They had great songs that carried really get humour and watching their live performances and all the destruction of guitars they seemed like they were having a lot of fun. For young me I always saw The Who as this really upbeat, happy band. I grew up with no sense of loss, so I probably underappreciated the impact of Moon’s death had on the rest of The Who. Keith Moon died in 1978, five years before I was born, so I grew up knowing the end of the story. But for the rest of The Who, for Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and John Entwistle, they had lost more than that, they had lost an irreplaceable member of their band, and they also lost a good friend. Obviously for the world, and music at large, we lost one of the greatest drummers of all time.
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I think it’s funny, but I also acknowledge the enormity of the loss that was Keith Moon. Like the rock god that he was Keith Moon partied to death at age thirty-two, and I like to imagine that if there is an afterlife, then Keith Moon might be shouting to earth to the rest of The Who yelling “we had a deal!” The only member of The Who who fulfilled this promise was Keith Moon.
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I have a dark sense of humour, so I have found an extra layer of comedy in that old line about dying before getting old.
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For those who somehow do not already know, that famous lyric comes from The Who’s 1965 hit song “My Generation.” This music in review is not going to focus on “My Generation” specifically, but I think this is a going starting point of the longer conversation I wish to have with myself and the internet.