While not every rock and roll cliché is true, a fair amount of those stereotypes are actually rooted in truth...and the real stories are even more wild than most people know, particularly in the case of Keith Moon, the legendary drummer for The Who.
While Moon wasn't the only rock icon to ever trash a hotel room, he might have done more damage than any of his peers thanks to his penchant for explosives. On the band's first tour, the drummer was particularly fond of cherry bombs, as Terry Fletcher wrote in his biography of the drummer, Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend.
“From that moment on, no hotel room or changing was safe until the tour moved away. Keith Moon developed a taste for blowing up toilets," Fletcher wrote.
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After an inebriated Moon blew up a toilet on the ninth floor of the Gorsham Hotel in 1968 (then proceeded to climb out onto a window ledge and toss more cherry bombs at approaching police offers), The Who were forced to stay at less-expensive lodgings (Holiday Inns) for the rest of the tour.
“One day I was in Keith’s room and I said, ‘could I use your bog?’ and he smiled and said ‘sure.’ I went in there and there was no toilet, just sort of an S bend, and I thought, ‘Christ, what happened?’" wrote Pete Townshend in his book, An Amazing Journey: The Life of Pete Townshend.
“He said, ‘Well this cherry bomb was about to go off in me hand and I threw it down the toilet to stop it going off.’ So I said, ‘Are they that powerful?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, it’s incredible!’" Townshend continued. "So I said, ‘How many of ‘em have you got?’ with fear in me eyes. He laughed and said, ‘Five hundred,’ and opened up a case full to the top with cherry bombs. And of course from that moment on we got thrown out of every hotel we ever stayed in.”
One of Keith Moon's most destructive pranks involved a waterbed
As Rolling Stone reported, one of Moon's most epically destructive pranks occurred in 1972 when The Who were staying at a fancy hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. Moon was apparently "fascinated" by the waterbed in his suite and tried to get Townshend to help him drag the mattress into the elevator so he could send it to the lobby.
Alas, the mattress burst before they could get it out of the frame, "unleashing foot-high waves out into the hallway." The band could have ended up being responsible for thousands of dollars in damages, but a quick-thinking Moon called the manager, claiming that the bed somehow burst, destroying all his stage clothes in the process.
Apparently the drummer's story was pretty convincing, because the manager apologized and moved him to another suite...which the band reportedly demolished later that same night.
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